Araz News: Mr. Babek Chalabiyanli the spokesperson of ANRO (Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization) has written a letter to Mr. REX TILLERSON the secretary of state of America about the mission and views of ANRO (Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization) regarding the recent statements of Mr. Rex Tillerson in the case of changing the regime in Iran on Jun 30, 2017.

The content of the letter is as follows:

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization

(Azərbaycan Milli Dirəniş Təşkilatı – AMDT)

 

 

Jun 30, 2017                                                                                                                   No:2017-1019

The Honorable Rex Tillerson

Secretary of State

U.S. Department of State

2201 C Street NW

Washington, DC 20520

 

Dear Mr. Secretary,
I, on behalf of the Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization, would like to make a statement about the speeches that you have made about Iran last week at Congress.

During the past 39 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran, with radical religious and nationalist dictatorship, has deprived human beings of their basic and legal liberty and brutally subject them into the worst possible condition. Of course, the regime suppression against non-Persian nations, including Turks, Kurds, Ahwazi Arabs, and other ethnicities and sects has markedly been intensified in recent years. Iran’s brazen regime with its expansionist ambition has set fire to the Middle East region and as a result brought large -scale havoc and carnage to the war-torn Yemen to Syria.

 

The deeply rooted hostility of the Iranian Pan-Iranian regime from Arabs and Turks has increased their brutality in massacring and devastating Arab countries, and inflecting severe repression upon the Turkish people within the country.

Western and United States of America have been cooperating with the Iranian opposition for more than three decades, and it is transparent that it has not achieved a tangible achievement until this day.

 

If we take a look at the contemporary history of Iran, we will see clearly that almost all of the major changes in Iran’s politics have started or have been accomplished by Azerbaijanis. Approximately 40 percent of the Iranian population is formed by Turks, most of them living in South Azerbaijan. Currently, there is a massive movement in the Azerbaijani society with a huge potential, the “National Movement of Azerbaijan”.

 

We profoundly believe that no fundamental and structural change can be accomplished in Iran without the vital participation of Azerbaijani people. The Azerbaijani people strongly objected to Article 110 (Absolute Guardianship of Juris consult) just after the revolution, at the time of the constitution was written. The movement of the Muslim People’s Republic Party led by Shariatmadari took 6 months to control the Azerbaijani regions in protest against Article 110 of the constitution’s dictatorship.

 

Sadly, the Iranian society at that time was not accompanied by Azerbaijan, and the regime was able to suppress the Azerbaijani people by abusing their religious feelings and with the false promise to them. Now the National Movement of Azerbaijan with a lot of experiences of struggles and mobilizing the masses of people against the regime is able to bring democracy and freedom in Iran. It’s experienced in combating dictatorship and mass mobilization of the people against the regime, democracy, and freedom.

 

Unfortunately, the center-right opposition continues to erupt with the extreme ethnic nationalism of Persia on the way to the National Movement of Azerbaijan. Almost all news and events in the Azerbaijani area

 

 

 

 

are deliberately boycotted or censored in Medias such as Voice of America, Radio Farda and … by the Pro-Iranians.

 

Dear Secretary of State Department of USA, on behalf of the National Resistance Organization, I am ready to cooperate and co-operate with your Department in defense of human values and freedom in Iran. We have the ability to make a tangible impact on the society of Azerbaijan and, ultimately, the potential power of fundamental change in Iran, but all of this requires facilities and cooperation between us.

 

 

I have attached a few documents that will act as a primer to the Azerbaijan National Movement in Iran and our organization. We look forward to the opportunity to meet, discuss about Iran and our movement in further details, and hopefully establish a meaningful channel for communication and cooperation.

 

 

Most respectfully,
Babek Chalabiyanli

Spokesperson of

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization (ANRO)

 

 

 

South Azerbaijan and the National Movement of Azerbaijan

 

 

South Azerbaijan is a vast region in Northwestern Iran, which is populated predominantly by Azerbaijani Turks. Throughout the past millennium, most of the consecutive governments that ruled over Iran have hailed from the Azerbaijani-Turkish nation. It wasn’t until the overthrow of the Azerbaijani Qajar empire by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, that ethnic Persian nationalism became the dominant doctrine and consequently anti-Arabism, anti-Turkism and anti-Islamism became the basis for forming the modern Iranian nation-state.

The Persianate dynasty began a policy of eliminating all non-Persian (non-Farsi) cultural and historical heritage, thus erasing the legacy of the Azerbaijani Turks. The Pahlavi’s viewed the Azerbaijani Turkish

 

 

culture, language, and civilization as one which posed an existential threat to the dominance of the Persian identity in Iran being that over 30% of the entire population of the fledgling state was comprised of ethnic Turks. South Azerbaijan, which had been the most modern and developed region in the empire over the centuries was suddenly starved of its economic standing and quickly deteriorated into one of the most impoverished. Throughout the last eight decades, the Turkish nation in South Azerbaijan has been subjected to economic, political, social, and cultural discrimination and oppression.

 

Mass humiliation and ridicule under systematic racism has grown to become one of the most detrimental problems to the Azerbaijani identity and the national psyche.

 

Not only did the ethnic segregation of Iran’s minorities persist even after the 1979, Islamic revolution, but this mentality has infiltrated every aspect of Iranian society, including the supposedly democratic opposition, which under no circumstance recognizes that Iran is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and multi-cultural country. This being even though Iran’s Farsi-speaking population is just shy of constituting a simple majority of the population of Iran, the majority being comprised of the lager number of all other ethnic groups.

Thus, the Azerbaijani Turkish nation starting from the early 1900s has maintained a resistance campaign to counteract and repel Persian chauvinism. To halt the persecution and discrimination that has plagued South Azerbaijan for decades and protect Azerbaijan’s historical heritage, identity, and dignity, Azerbaijani Turks have taken to multifaceted forms of expression, risking detention, torture, and even death. The modern stage of national struggle, referred to as the “National Movement of Azerbaijan” has consistently grown since the late 1980s.

The National Movement of Azerbaijan is now a powerful and well-supported political movement, calling for the social and collective human rights and freedoms of Turkish society in South Azerbaijan.

 

 

 

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization

 

 

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization (ANRO) was established in 2006.

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization

 

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization (ANRO), was established in 2006. ANRO defines itself as a part and subset of general National Movement of Azerbaijan. ANRO advocates for the economic, political, social, cultural and human rights and fundamental liberties of Turkish nation in South Azerbaijan. ANRO believes firmly in the principles of democracy and acts using methods and values of civil disobedience to achieve its aims.

ANRO avoids and condemns all kinds of violence especially governmental and organized armed terrorism.

We, the Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization (ANRO), strongly believe that all necessary conditions for the self-determination of the Turkish nation in South Azerbaijan should be fulfilled and that self-determination for our nation is a legitimate and legal right.

BY-B.CH