Araz News via washingtonpost: Saudi Arabia is fighting in Yemen and supporting rebels in Syria in part to push back against Iranian influence. Saudi’s highly vocal efforts can distract from one of the most notable yet underappreciated elements of the...
ARAZ NEWS: The following publication does not necessary reflect the views of Araz News or its staff. A “Persian” Iran?: Challenging the Aryan Myth and Persian Ethnocentrism POSTED BY ALEX SHAMS ⋅ MAY 18, 2012 I am often confronted by the question...
By FARZIN FARZAD TABRIZ, South Azerbaijan Araz News: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was in the city of Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, on May 20 to garner support for the nuclear negotiations, as a predominantly ethnic Azerbaijani crowd of 40,000 gathered in Takhti Stadium to...
Report: Çınar Oskay – TEHRANPhotos: Sebati Karakurt Hürriyet correspondent Çınar Oskay and photojournalist Sebati Karakurt write about the unfortunate league final for Tractor Sazi Tabriz, an Iranian football club with its Azeri fans who sport Turkish nationalist symbols. Tractor’s supporters...
By James M. Dorsey An Egyptian court has banned militant soccer fan groups or ultras as terrorist organizations in a bid to break the backbone of anti-government protests. The ruling at the request of Mortada Mansour, the controversial, larger than...
By James M. Dorsey Against a backdrop of the violent redrawing of the map of the Middle East as minorities assert their rights, rebels challenge the existing order, and militant Islamists seek to carve up the post-colonial order, Iranian soccer...
Araz News: Retired Army Veteran Dr. Rich Swier has taken up the cause of advocating on behalf of the Ahwazi Arabs of Southwestern Iran, a group that has received very little attention from Western media, but has recently been gaining notoriety...
By RANA RAHIMPOUR The jailing of a well-known campaigner against the death penalty and a sharp rise in executions has once again put Iran’s poor human rights record in the spotlight. Why has President Hassan Rouhani and his team failed...
BY EMIL SOULEIMANOV, KAMIL PIKAL, AND JOSEF KRAUS Araz news: This article deals with the Azerbaijani majority in Iran and its potential and real security threat for the country’s internal affairs and for the entire Caspian region. The article opens with an...
Araz news: South Azerbaijan in the structure of Iran: Administrative, territorial divisions and the population by Akram Rahimli (Bije) The early 19th century was a traumatic time for the Azerbaijani people. Their lands were divided as a result of wars between...
Araz news: Hamid Farokhi was the south Azerbaijani protester, who set a fire to burn himself on Sunday, 19th of April, 2015. He was a vendor in Tabriz city. Because of dismantling of his stall by the officers, he set...
The Khojaly Massacre Background In 1991 the small village of Khojaly, situated in the Nagorno Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, had a population of just 6,300 people. In October of that year, in the midst of the Nagorno...
ArazNews:Thousands of Ahwazi people have gathered on 14th of February in front of Ahwaz Governorate office in Ahwaz’s capital demanding swift actions to cope with the dust storm that has currently crippled lives of the Ahwazi people. Ahwazi protesters by...
The name of Safavi comes from the grandfather of Shah Ismail Sheikh Safiaddin. In fact, Safiyaddin of the Sunni faith had gained a great influence in Ardabil, the centre of this faith during Elkhanids and had attracted the attention of...
ArazNews:Azerbaijan used a 1990 massacre as motivation for achievement By Elin Suleymanov Twenty-five years ago today, while then-President George H.W. Bush was delivering his State of the Union message before a joint session of Congress in Washington, Soviet troops attacked...
