tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152065252011-12-02T00:30:40.585-08:00Aydin Yoldashnoreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15206525.post-41966550446153041372007-02-01T12:39:00.000-08:002007-02-01T12:40:55.791-08:00

By David Gollust State Department31 January 2007 The U.S. State Department Wednesday called on the Iranian government to cease what it said is the systematic repression of political dissidents and activists from ethnic and religious minorities. The comments came in response to reports of mistreatment of a jailed Azeri-Iranian prisoner, Abbas Lisani. VOA's Davd Gollust reports from the State

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According to ILNA (Iranian Labour News Agency), Akbar Alami, Member of Parlament, said that the physical condition of Abbas Lesani is critical, according to his family.He mentioned that Abbas has gone to hunger strike because of some discriminational behavior of prison authorities.

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Reza Abbasi, a Zanjani journalist and South Azerbaijani activist, sentenced to one year in prison for 'insulting the leader and senior officials' and making 'propaganda against the system', according to his lawyer, Saeed Khalili.Saeed Khalili told Iran's ISNA student news agency that Reza Abbasi has tried in the Revolutionary Court in Zenjan and sentenced to one year in prison.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPublic StatementAI Index: MDE 13/074/2006 (Public)News Service No: 16829 June 2006Iran: Authorities should exercise restraint in policing Babek Castle gathering and address human rights violations against Iranian Azeri TurksAs the annual Babek Castle cultural gathering of Iranian Azeri Turks approaches on 30 June 2006, Amnesty International is urging the Iranian authorities

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President Ahmadinezhad has been greeted by Bozgurd sign in Tabriz!

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By a violent invasion, police have arrested Abbas Lesani, a well-known and highly respected activist of South Azerbaijan movement, on July 3, 2006. They searched his home and some property damage is reported. They also collect some of his personal staffs like mobile phones, PC and books.Authority has arrested Mr. Lesanli several times. His defense in the court of justice is famous and motivates

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Following the publication of the insulting cartoons in the nationwide newspaper “Iran”, hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis protested against “Persian chauvinism” in the streets of Tabriz on Monday, May 22nd. The cartoons made analogies such that the Azerbaijani people were compared to cockroaches that should be exterminated by cutting off their food source (excrements). The May 22nd

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Iran Newspaper, Friday May 12th 2006, Special edition for kids:First Method: DiscourseSome people think one shouldn’tseek violent methods at the first hand as it kills the mood. So we should first try to sit down at the table and talk to “roaches” in a very civilized manner. But the problem is that “roaches” don’t know language of human. Grammar of roaches’ language is also such tough (still

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by Dr Alireza Asgharzadeh1. The Belief in the Superiority of ‘Aryan’ Race2. The Belief that Iran Is the Land of Aryans3. The Belief in the Purification of Aryan Race of Iran through Language4. The Practice of Anachronism in Interpreting Works of History, Religion, and Literature5. The Belief in Essentialism and an Essentialist notion of Iranian-ness6. The Belief in the Systematic Practice of

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An elaborate ceremony has been held in Tabriz, Qum and Ahar to mark the 14th anniversary of Khojaly genocide.In Tabriz, the ceremony started at 4:30pm on Sunday 27, 2006 in front of the Armenian Prelacy. Some 500 people took part in this ceremony. Police tried to prevent it but they were unsuccessful. At 5:30pm, police disrupted the affair firing tear gas and jabbing their nightsticks, and

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On Tuesday, February 23, 2006, in the evening, some South Azerbaijanis students gathered in front of the east door of Amirkabir University of Technology as an expression of protest on the cancellation of the Mother Tongue Congress. The authorities of the university had firstly authorized the congress but later, they cancelled it without any announced excuse.Condemning the cancellation of the

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To: UNESCOThe Director-General of UNESCO, Mr. Koïchiro MatsuuraWe are writing to bring your attention to the systematic suppression of the Azeri-Turkish language and the imposition of Persian by the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). In most societies, the written and the spoken languages are the same. In such a society International Mother Language Day, February 21st, is a day of celebration and

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Document 1: "Developments in the Azerbaijan Situation," Central Intelligence Group, Office of Reports and Estimates (ORE 19), secret, June 4, 1947One of the first crises of the post-World War II period between the United States and Soviet Union centered around the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Moscow’s refusal to withdraw its military forces after the war and its clandestine support

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Davood Azimzadeh, who is a teacher in Marageh, got arrested yesterday, January 22, 2006. The arrest was carried out at the behest of the Ministry of Information, which coordinates intelligence and security affairs in Iran. His accusation has not been announced yet but it is said that it should be related to a report about an environmental disaster in Maraghe.Source: http://www.durna.se/eimzade.htm

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Reyhaneh Poorgani, a member of Central Islamic Student Association of Zanjan University and editor of "QIZIL OZAN", a banned student magazine, got arrested by the office of the Ministry of Information, which coordinates intelligence and security affairs in Iran. The authorities of the Zangan University asked her to present herself to the office of the Ministry of Information in Zangan. She got

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Yashar Hakkak Pour Maragei, senior student of Zanjan University, got arrested today, January 21, 2006. The arrest was carried out at the behest of the Ministry of Information, which coordinates intelligence and security affairs in Iran. Yashar has been kept in an unknown place.Source: http://qeydar.blogfa.com/post-130.aspxThanks from http://yurdumuz.blogspot.com

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By: Aydin Rahimi"Gorkhu Dada" is a stone monument in a valley called Tangry Dada near Anbaran, a pleasant city with a mild climate, located 40 km from Ardebil, Iran.Located over a 100m high hill, this monument with a height of 30m and a width of 6m has a human face characteristic including eyes, nose, mouth and chin. It was discovered by an Ardabili Mountaineer, Mr. Sageb Hamidi, in 1998. However

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Re: OPEN LETTERI would like to kindly address you on behalf of our 30 million Southern Azerbaijanis, systematically deprived of the most basic rights, the right for education in mother tongue. Here, I am providing you with the translation of a text written by a political prisoner eliciting the survival of the mother tongue of this helpless nation being attacked by Iranian chauvinism in this day

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You can read this site from http://www.southazerbaijan.com/ as well as http://southazerbayjan.blogspot.com/

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Javad Abbasi, a Salmasian teacher and political activist, has been sentenced to jail on Thursday 21, 2005. The court announced that Javad Abbasi had been found guilty ofpublishing the announcements of the South Azerbaijan national movement,attending in the Babak Castle Congress,taking part in the Pan-Turkic meetings,formation of Pan-Turkic meetings,providing financial support for the South

Aydin Yoldashnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15206525.post-1133228935825981472005-11-28T17:48:00.000-08:002006-08-11T23:09:18.206-07:00

This plan was very simple. In Tabriz, mentioning that Tehran can not do any progress, most of my friends said “It should be started from Azerbaijan. First, here should be reformed. We have to create national government here by the help of Azerbaijanis. Tehran is the head of reactionaries and the center of dictatorship. Tehran has been against all non-central movements. In first step, we should

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1st Set.2nd Set.3rd Set.

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Azerbaijanis pay tribute to the honour of the true soldier of Azerbaijan , Safar khan Qahramanian

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You can watch the conference of AEI here (Click on Video). The great speech of Rahim Shahbazi in AEI conference also can be watched here.As expected, the conference has made Chauvinists and Pan-Iranists angry!For example, read this and comments there (in Persian).  The title is “Federalism, a new excuse of Michael Ledeen and AEI to meddle in Iran”I suggested the author (they deleted my comment!)

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By : the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/046/2005UA 219/05 Fear for safety/fear of torture or ill-treatment/ 24August 2005possible prisoner of conscienceIRAN Hojjatoleslam Ezimi Qedimi (m), aged 32, Muslim clericHojjatoleslam Ezimi Qedimi was reportedly arrested on 5 August. He is believed to be held in a prison in Tabriz, the capital of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan and may be at risk of torture or

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This is Mehran Rahimi.He is 6 years old.He lives in a village in south Azerbaijan, namely Girmizi Khalife in Gosha Chay.Look at his enthusiastic eyes.Today, south Azerbaijan is full of those eyes.Those eyes are disturbing dreams of chauvinists who deny existence of a great nation.Those eyes are changing the future of people who have been crushed under pressure of organized Persian chauvinism.

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In Kaleybar, a court sentenced another 21 activists of (South) Azerbaijan National Movement to jail from 91 days to 1 year. Having been arrested in Great Azerbaijan’s Turks Congress in Babak Castle, 48 activists have been sentenced by the 1st branch of Kalaybar court since less than one month ago. The congress is annually held in protest at neglecting and violating the citizenship rights of

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By : Alireza Asgharzadeh (University of Toronto)Paper presented at a “Diaspora and Shifting Identities” Conference. University of Legon, West Africa, August 2002 (Please click here)and"Modern identities: We are the Azerbaijanis, We are the Turks of Azerbaijan......We are the Azerbaijani Turks"By: Jibrael Savalan(Please click here)

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By: Hamid DadizadehLanguage and Human Identity: South Azerbaijanis, a Case StudyThe “primordial and enduring importance of our mother language” has repeatedly been emphasized by the world renowned researchers and writers. Mother language is referred to as “the homeland of our innermost thoughts”.1. The interrelatedness of language with other human faculties and senses takes us spontaneously to

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To: President AhmadinejadThe Presidency, Palestine Avenue,Azerbaijan Intersection, Tehran, IranCopy : Kofi AnnanSecretary-General of United NationsStop depriving the identity of the children of Iran!Autumn has arrived in Iran, and according to the tradition, millions of happy and excited children set out to their classrooms for the first time. First day at school is a day many children through

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After I went to Tehran and became a member of the parliament, my desperateness and hopelessness was intensified. I saw tons of unanswered petitions and telegrams there. I noticed that most of the persons who have entered into the fraction of freedom- the fraction that we had enthusiastically tried to found it – have small and personal intentions. I was successful to find out that all parliament

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Persia's kings are history's great villains. Does the British Museum's show do them justice? By Jonathan Jones(A farsi translation of this paper can be found here)Thursday September 8, 2005The Guardian

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By Jamil Hasanli

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On September 10, 1945, one week after declaration of the famous 12 Shahrivar (September 3) manifest and the announcement of the establishment of Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP), Seyed Jafar Pishevari gave a speech about the party and their target for one hour and half. An abstract of the speech was published in Azerbaijan Newspaper. I will try to translate the speech from its Farsi version

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Chauvinism in Iran has not been started with Ahmad Kasravi. However, there is no doubt that he was one of the most effective theoreticians of chauvinism and his books, papers and ideas has inspired most of the chauvinists in Iran. To have a better view about his ideas, the environment where Kasravi developed his ideas should be studied.Ahmed Kasravi The period after World War I is one of the

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The court has sentenced Abbas Lesani to one year in jail for propaganda against the Islamic regime. Judge Nik Khah announced that Abbas Lesani had been found guilty ofattending in the Babak Castle Congress, encouraging people to attend in the Babak Castle Congress, making various placards with various dimensions about nationalism in Turkish and Latin, writing papers, poetries, statements and

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What is going on in a court of justice in South Azerbaijan?Abbas Lesani, a political activist, answered to the questions of the new judge of his trial for attending in the 6th Babak Castle Congress on 16 August 2005.In the pervious trials, Abbas Lesani managed to change the language of the trial to Turkish insistently. Likewise, the language of this trial was Turkish. Let us look at the trial

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Some 100 people thronged into the tomb of Baqer Khan in the Constitution Park to remember the 100th anniversary of constitution in Iran on the evening of Friday (5 August, 2005).After hours of debate, police allowed them to attend in a controlled and simple ceremony. When one of the political activists, Abbas Lesani, wanted to give a speech, police disrupted the affair and arrested some of the

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This site belongs to south Azerbaijan, that is a vast region in the north west of Iran. I have not seen any English weblog for south Azerbaijan so far. So I think this is the first one, unfortunately!Why does south Azerbaijan need a weblog?!Well, it is that hard to answer. As a start, I should say that south Azerbaijan is a part of Azerbaijan (as a great region) placed inside Iran. People of

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