Thursday 28 March 2024

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FARSTOXICATION: A COLORFUL CHARMING SNAKE

The kind of terminologies and concepts employed by marginalized writers, intellectuals and activists have central bearing in defining and articulating anti-colonial and anti-oppression struggles. While the use of a plethora of slogans and mottos at the grassroots level helps to...

A Brief History of Iranian Diversity

by Dr. Alireza Asgharzadeh   The history of what is now known as Iran is a history of various ethnic groups, languages ​​and cultures coexisting amongst one another from time immemorial. For as long as history can remember, ever since the...

Right to Self- Determination & The People of South Azerbaijan

By Huseyin Turkelli* The basic definition of self-determination is self-government and governing of a political unit by its own people without any compulsion and external interference. The Right of Self –Determination, as a collective right, is a fundamental principle of...

Kurdish Nationalists Claim Right on Azerbaijani Historical Territory

Araz News: Kurdish nationalist parties such as Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (KDP), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Iranian Kurdish parties claim right on Azerbaijani Historical territory. Vast parts of Azerbaijani territory are included in the maps of Kurdistan publishing...

The Southern Azerbaijan Question And Its Implications For Iranian National Identity

Author: Alberto Priego   Since the establishment of the Republic of Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijanis living in Iran have developed a stronger ethno-national identity, and that development has affected Tehran’s domestic and foreign policies. Most immediately,...

THE IRANIAN ISLAMIC REGIME’S IDEOLOGY LEGITIMIZES DOUBLE OPPRESSION AGAINST SIZEABLE NON-PERSIAN NATIONS

By: Rahim Hamid   Iranian regime’s political ideology: Since the Islamic Republic regime rise to power, the Iranian regime’s political ideology relies on two ominous factors; Persian nationalism and Shiite sectarianism. These two factors  shape Iran domestic and foreign strategies; firstly, how to tackle its internal...

Iran: More than Persia

  By Brenda Shaffer When Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was campaigning, he promised the country’s many ethnic minorities to expand the use of their languages. Rouhani recently signaled his intent to keep that promise, by appointing Iran’s first presidential aid...

South Azerbaijan Civil Rights Movement in Iran get idea of “Catalonia is not Spain”

South Azerbaijan Civil Rights Movement in Iran get idea of “Catalan is not Spain” and inspired by it. So, as supporters of F.C. Barcelona, in South Azerbaijan supporters of Tractorsazi Football Club opened  a banner in stadium that write on it...

AZERBAIJAN: SHORT HISTORY OF STATEHOOD

by: Yagub Mahmudlu please download PDF file azshorthis_en

Azerbaijan Divided: History and Consequences

by Karim Shukurov From the territorial history of Azerbaijan The development of centralised nations through history has both common and specific features. The centralized states of France and Russia were created (in the 15th and 16th centuries) around Paris and...

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM AMONG IRANIAN AZERBAIJANIS: A STEP TOWARD IRAN’S DISINTEGRATION?

By Emil Souleimanov, Kamil Pikal, and Josef Kraus This article deals with the Azerbaijani minority 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...

The Ahwazi Arab women On the international woman day

It is heartbreaking when we think about the abject and inhuman treatment that the Ahwazi Arab women receive on a daily basis. They suffer double persecution by the Iranian regime due to their ethnicity and gender. This happens in every...

Alarming statistics of increasing cancer in Ahwaz region linked to air pollution

By: Rahim Hamid In the past, Ahwazi people were rarely hearing about cancer but cancer is now more common than flu among Ahwazi people. The air pollution in Ahwaz led to a sharp increase of leukemia, liver cancer, skin cancer...

Iran is not Monolithic: When Dealing with Iran, the U.S. Should Have All the Facts

By Farzin Farzad and Jason Katz The fanatical musings of the Mullahs in Iran and their nuclear ambitions have been on the radar of the U.S. and western analysts for decades. With the Obama administration’s seemingly deep desire to leave...

The world’s largest open-air prison of the Islamic republic regime

Since the Islamic Republic Regime’s rise to power, the mullah nasty regime has enforced ethnocide policies against Ahwazi Arab nation and other non-Persian nations. In fact, the threat of forced displacement, deportation, expulsion and execution against Ahwazi Arab, Kurds, Turks, Baluchs and Turkmen waspermanent....