Araz News: The Islamic Republic of Iran has undersigned the Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention) in 1993 and once in every five years submits a periodic report to the United Nation on the compliance with the...
Araz News:Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a wily political survivor and multimillionaire mogul who remained among the ruling elite despite moderate views, died yesterday at 82. Iranian President Hassan Rohani, who is preparing to run for reelection in another...
These days, a hot discussion between Azerbaijani and anti- Azerbaijani sites is the formed Turkic Regions faction in Islamic Iran Parliament which has been signed by more than one hundred Iranian lawmaker. This new parliamentary group reflected many interpretations worldwide. Undoubtedly,...
Araz News:Thousands of Iranians have headed to the tomb where Cyrus the Great, the founder of Achaemenid Empire, is believed to be buried, to commemorate the Day of Cyrus despite not being recognized by any international institution. They mark the...
Written by Hamzeh Arbabi- Aerospace Engineering Student at Middle East Technical University The Chatham House Institute which is recognized as the second best think tank worldwide, according to a University of Pennsylvania research (Top 30 Think Tanks – http://goo.gl/swCy6F) stated in...
By Rahim Hamid Ahwazi football fans on Friday braved the wrath of the Iranian regime to raise their voices for freedom, unfurling banners demanding freedom and human rights at a match at Al-Ghadir stadium in the region’s eponymous capital Ahwaz,...
Written by Farzin Farzad It has over time become a popular trend for many ethnic Azerbaijani-Turks in Iran and the diaspora to refer to themselves as “Azari” in an effort to distinguish themselves from their ethnic kin in the Republic...
By Yaser Asadi, an Ahwazi rights activist A prominent member of Iranian Assembly, an expert on Al-Ahwaz province (also called Khuzestan in Persian), and Friday prayer preacher Mohsen Haidari criticises the government policies in the region against indigenous Ahwazi Arabs...
Written by Rahim Hamid, Ahwazi Human Rights Activist This report on recent human rights atrocities committed by the Iranian Government against the indigenous Arabs of the Al-Ahwaz region. The report sheds light on poverty, environment, prisons and courts, racism and...
Written by Rahim Hamid At the end of his visit to Italy, at a press conference, Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president refused to apologize for the torching of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. When asked about this, Rohani...
Written by Rahim Hamid, Ahwazi Arab writer Human rights principles in the modern era were founded based on agreements that were supposed to recognize and grant basic human rights to different groups of people regardless of their race, colour, religious...
Written by Babek Chalabiyanli Iran is a real mosaic: the country has many minorities – Turks (Azerbaijani), Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, and Baluchi’s, among others, constitute the population of entire provinces of the country, although there are no official statistics on...
By Shamil Alibəyli The current confrontation between Tehran and Riyadh will lead to the further isolation of Iran in the Middle East. This report was told by the expert on Middle East, the BBC analyst and The London Post editor,...
By Rahim Hamid The Reem deer, also known as Arabian gazelles, which are native to the Umm Dibs area to the west of the Ahwazi regional capital, Ahwaz, are in danger of extinction in the area due to dozens drowning...
Written by Rahim Hamid Exposures to environmental contamination continued to be a primary cause of health risk in Al-Ahwaz region also knows as Khuzestan in the south-west of Iran. Unclean water, bad sanitation and poor hygiene are the main causes...
