Azeris in Iran

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Azerbaijan was divided by russia and Iran. Today north Azerbaijan is free after soviet Union fell. South Azerbaijan is still under iranian empire with ethnic genocides and racist govnt since shah time until now islamic fundimentalist iran's time.

The government-sponsored propaganda portrays Turks as barbarians. Turks who want to climb up in state hierarchy have to deny their ethnic background. In order to assimilate the Turks into Persian culture Tehran discourages deliberately investments in South Azerbaijan by making it hard to obtain permission to set up any fundamental industry there. Even in the case of obtaining permission, the cooperation of banking system can not be expected. As a result, thousands of people have had to leave their homeland and settle in iranian cities to make a living. The economy is chaotic "In contrast to the majority of people who lived in abject poverty, there was a relatively small class of rich landowners and merchants" The people suffer from enormous difficulties in obtaining their essential needs such as bread.


In comparison to the other regions the cost of living is much higher in Azerbaijan. The discrimination has reached a point where people in Azerbaijan started putting questions such as, " While the sugar ratio in the capital is 1.5 kilos per month, why is the ration for Azerbaijanis no more than 400 grams, and that is not per month but rather, per season?"
The political bureaucracy is corrupt and the gendarmerie is nothing more than an instrument in the hands of landowners to suppress the peasants. The appointed officials from Tehran are more worried about their pockets than solving peoples problems. Officials from the south find Tebriz and Reza'iyeh (Urmu) nothing more than dull villages, where they can make money and get back to Tehran, or anywhere down south. The workers have no rights. Not a single organization is allowed to defend their rights. Unions are outlawed. There is no freedom of speech; the press, and radio are controlled by the central government. South Azerbaijan is a microcosm of conditions existing in Iran

In the past when it comes to the question of South Azerbaijan, iranians have tried to label the revolution of the Azerbaijanis as a Soviet-sponsored intrigue. It is also interesting to note that the iranian Liberal minded scholars have a tendency to portrait or paint themselves as " INTERNATIONALISTS" when they are talking about other oppressed people around the world.

However, when it comes to the question of Turks in so called Iran, they put away their quasi internationalist musk and display their despicable racist inclination. It can be seen in almost all of the so-called progressive Persian media's reaction during and after the formation of Azerbaijani Democratic Government. The following excerpt from the newspaper Iran-e Ma (Our Iran) is just an example:

In the view of our writers, it is perfectly obvious that the local language of Azerbaijan deserves respect. However, in our opinion the local language of Azerbaijan can definitely not be the national language of our Azerbaijani fellow countrymen because we do not consider the people of Azerbaijan to be a nation separate from our other fellow countrymen and ourselves

Please help Azeris and support the noble aim of uniting north and south azerbaijan and getting rid of fascist persian racist iranian empire.

[Tebriz-will-Rise]

20 million Azeris in North-West Iran

and Iran refuses to :

Denial of cultural autonomy

Harassment and imprisonment of cultural activists;

The banning of the use of the Azeri language in schools

The use of Iranian Azeri hybrid, rather than pure Azeri, on television and radio

Teaching in schools that the birth of the Iranian people came with the arrival of the Persian tribes and that the Azeri people are Iranian Aryans, forced to change their language upon the arrival of the Mongolians

Changing or distorting Azeri geographical names

Refusal to register a child with an Azeri name

and also : Iran in schools teaches to children that Azeri Turks are donkeys and that arab minority in iran eat Lizards and crocodiles for lunch.