Tuesday 16 July 2024

Araz News

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Persian Poet’s Statue Came Back but Pressure on Azerbaijani Activists and Local Officials Escalates

Araz News: According to Araz News web site’s Farsi service central government’s pressure on South Azerbaijani activists and local officials escalates even after Ferdowsi’s statue came back upon order of the minister of the interior affairs. After statue and name...

Debates on Removed Statue of Persian Poet  

Araz News: Debates on a removed statue of old Persian poet Ferdowsi get hard. After municipality of Salmas city of South Azerbaijan (Western Azerbaijan Province) changed name of “Ferdowsi Square” to “Enghelab (Revolution) Square” and removed statue of poet Ferdowsi...

Escalating Pressure on South Azerbaijani Activists Because of Mother Language Day Celebrations

Araz News: While South Azerbaijani activists celebrates International Mother Language Day by different ways Iranian security forces escalates pressure on the activists. South Azerbaijani sources report against official applications by Azerbaijani right activists and campaigns on media Iranian authorities refused...

The most obvious racism in the biggest bookstore of Portland,Oregon USA. Sign the petition

Please sign the petition linked below to help us in eliminating this racist word from the category of this and all other locations of this bookstore. gopetition Eliminate the word “Persia” from the category of your bookstores.   we could’nt believe...

Former Representative in FAO: If Lake Urmia Would not Rescued Tabriz and Urmia Will Have to Be Evacuated

Araz News: Iran’s former representative in FAO, Mr. Mohammad Said Nouri Naini has told if Lake Urmia would not rescued Tabriz and Urmia will have to be evacuated. According to semi-official Fars News Agency speaking in Water, Culture and Society...

Deputy Governor: We Are Turks and Say Long Live Azerbaijan

Araz News: Deputy Governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province, responsible of political and security affairs, Mr. Said Shabestari told in a press conference: “We are Turks and say Long Live Azerbaijan”. Answering a question about Tractor football club and its fans...

Sections of Azerbaijan History: The national liberation and democratic movements

In 1905-1911 in Tabriz, the national-liberation movement under the leadership of Sattar khan (Mashruta movement) had started. Soon this movement spread to all South Azerbaijan. Mashruta movement raised Sattar Khan up to the level of great commander. In 1907 while...

Iranian Police Bans South Azerbaijani Artist

Araz News: Mr. Masoud Sepehri Nia the South Azerbaijani singer is banned from performing by Iranian police because he and his Barish (Peace) music group took part in Turkvision Song Contest in Kazan, Tataristan. Mr. Masoud Sepehri Nia has stated...

Guardian: Lake Urmia: how Iran’s most famous lake is disappearing

New research shows Iran’s most famous lake has shrunk by nearly 90% since the 1970s. Scientists urge action In the late 1990s, Lake Urmia, in north-western Iran, was twice as large as Luxembourg and the largest salt-water lake in the...

German parliamentarian in Tabriz: Lake Urmia is A Huge Wound That Makes One Cry

Araz News: Deputy Speaker of the German parliament, Mrs. Claudia Roth, who was heading a German delegation for a five-day visit to Iran, has visited Lake Urmia to observe the major environmental disaster in place. In a meet with East...

Who is Turks Hostile in Iran?

Hamid Sulduzlu Recently, obscure quotes from unknown people are sounded in Iran which try to divert public opinion that the National Movement of Azerbaijan is a deception enemies. It is so necessary to clear this issue. Today, the enemy of...

“Uprising of Tabriz’s People after 79 Revolution” Published in South Azerbaijan

Araz News: “Uprising of Tabriz’s People after 79 Revolution” published in South Azerbaijan by Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization. The book is prepared by Research Committee of ANRO and published by Publication Committee of ANRO. Book is distributed in South Azerbaijan...

Member of Tabriz City Council: Hidden Hands Prevent Establishing Turkish Language Institute

Araz News: Habib Shiri Azar member of city council of Tabriz, capital of East Azerbaijan province, has said some hidden hands prevent establishing Azerbaijani Turkish language institute. He added actualizing president’s promise about establishing Turkish institute is a demand of...

SOUTH AZERBAIJANI MP: RUHANI, A PRESIDENT OF BROKEN PROMISSES

Mehdi Davatgari, the Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Maragheh and Ajabshir of South Azerbaijan called upon the Iranian president to fulfill the promises he made during his election campaign. During the question period at Iranian parliament, the South...

President Aid: Many “Azeri”s Were Kurd in the Past

Araz News: In a meet with members of Union Kurdish Front, which is a legal group in Iran, Iranian president’s aid for ethnicities and minorities’ affairs and the former minister of intelligence, Ali Younesi has said many “Azeri”s were Kurd...