Iran is to Azerbaijan as Thailand is to Laos: just as Thailand has far more Lao-speakers than Laos, Iran has far more Azeri-speakers than Azerbaijan. Some 18 million Azeris live in Iran (where they comprise 20 to 25 percent of...
Maxime Gauin In the context of the Perinçek v. Switzerland case, and of the forthcoming centennial of 1915, Turkey will be, once again, pressured to “face history.” However, who can contest the fact that contemporary history should be written after...
VOA Persia has cozy relations with the Iranian regime, critics say Congress is calling for an investigation into Voice of America’s (VOA) Persian language news service as a result of what they say is the station’s systemic pro-Iran bias and...
By Umud Duzgun The latest scientific study posits the location for the legendary Garden of Eden in South Azerbaijan (now northwestern Iran), in the vicinity of Tabriz upon which the Genesis tradition was based. According to the British archaeologist Davis...
Araz News: US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has published a secret archive document about Azerbaijan National Government (1945-1946). The document is a secret report written in 1947. The report represents American point of view which was on the side of...
Fakhteh Luna Zamani The right to receiving education in one’s mother tongue is a civil right and a human right that is stressed in a number of international human rights documents and conventions such as Universal Declaration of Linguistic...
Dr. Nasib Nassibli Iran is a multinational country, composed of Persians, Azerbaijanis(Azerbaijani Turks), Kurds, Turkmens, Arabs, Baluchies and others. The Turkic origin Azerbaijanis in Iran are being discriminated against by the Iranian regime. This problem is further exaggerated by the...
IN IRAN THE STATE-SPONSORED PROPAGANDA PORTRAYED TURKS AS BARBARIANS. In Southern Azerbaijan (Iranian Azerbaijan), the Turkish language (Azerbaijani language) was banned from schools and government offices. Since the Turkish language press shared the same fate, there were no Turkish newspaper...
Thematic Focus: Climate Change, Resource Efficiency, Ecosystem Management, and Environmental Governance The Drying of Iran’s Lake Urmia and its Environmental Consequences FEBRUARY 2012 Lake Urmia in the northwestern corner of Iran is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes...
Note: Araz News does not share all ideas mentioned in this article. JEFFREY GOLDBERG The Atlantic’s late-2007 rendering of what the Middle East might eventually look like (The Atlantic) So as I was saying…. First, a bit of...
During the IRGC’s annual convention held in September 2013 in Tehran, the Iranian President gave a speech about IRGC involvement in Iran’s economic sector. His lecture had two parts, one part for the Western world and the other part for the...
by Aslan Soltaniazarlou In accordance with International Energy Agency (IEA) the energy security refers to the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price (1). Increasing the energy security, undoubtedly, is among the main issues, which all states must...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani repeatedly touts his commitment to “constructive engagement” with the international community, particularly as he negotiates a comprehensive nuclear agreement. Yet, as nuclear talks resume this week, the systematic and widespread violations of human rights in Iran...
by Fereydoun Safizadeh Abstract Today out of the seventy million population of Iran nearly twenty-five million are Turkish speakers. At least two thirds of this population lives in the provinces of East-West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, and the rest in and...
by Rahim Hamid All of us have heard over and over official statements fromoccupier’s Iranian theocratic regime officials that Ahwaz regionwhich is located in the south and south west of so-called” Iran”is “Heart of Iran economy”. The main natural resources in Ahwaz is oil, natural gas, fertilized land, metals...
