Tuesday 19 November 2024

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Ferhad Pirutpour : I am an Azerbaijani and my first priority is fans of Urmia

Araz News: Ferhad Pirutpour one of the best middle blocker volleyball players of the Municipality of Urmia from Mahabad in Azerbaijan said:” Currently, I have offers from several teams But, I really love Urmia and fans of Urmia are always...

“White tortures” booklet published and released by the Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization

Araz News: As the world commemorated the International Day Against Torture on June 26, the Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization’s (ANRO) publishing arm released a booklet entitled “White Torture: Trick Interrogation – How to Fight It.” The ANRO distributed the booklet in various...

Paintings by South Azerbaijani artist displayed in Ankara (photo Gallery)

Araz News: In a first of its kind exhibition, South Azerbaijani artist Ramin Abdollahzadeh displays his portraits of historical South Azerbaijani figures at an art gallery in Ankara. Abdollahzadeh claims the purpose of the exhibit is to showcase prominent South Azerbaijanis to show...

BBC Farsi Services with Hidden Agenda – an Exclusive Iranian Club within a British Organisation

BBC Farsi Services with Hidden Agenda – an Exclusive Iranian Club within a British Organisation We the undersigned individuals of British Azerbaijani communities & Azerbaijanis around the world wish to make a representation against the very un-British way of the...

Currency from 1946 Azerbaijan People’s Government on display in Tabriz

TABRIZ, South Azerbaijan Araz News: Currency bills printed during the brief “Azerbaijani National Government” have been on display at the currency museum in the Tabriz Municipality building. In a rare gesture commemorating what some in Iran consider an illegitimate government in the mid 1940s, Azerbaijani residents have...

Heavy winds and dust sweep Iran

Araz News via trend: Most areas in Iran are grappling with heavy winds and dust, meteorologist Fariba Goudarzi said,Trend reported. Tehran has been witnessing dust in the early hours of the night for a few days in row, she noted, Fars...

South Azerbaijani is not Iran banner raised in Oslo

Araz News: At a football match between the Norwegian and Azerbaijani national teams in Oslo, Azerbaijani spectators took the opportunity to hoist a large sign bearing Azerbaijani nationalist slogan, “South Azerbaijan is not Iran.” The June 13 bout, which was a...

Azerbaijani poet Alireza Bakhshi dies of heart failure

ARDABIL, South Azerbaijan Araz News: Azerbaijani poet and national activist Alireza Bakhshi died as a result of heart failure in the city of Ardabil. According to South Azerbaijani news outlet Guanz Tv News, the forty-year-old activist passed away in Ardabil Hospital on Monday,...

Mideast’s highest swing bridge in South Azerbaijan

Araz News via Payvand: Iran has unveiled the Middle East’s highest suspension bridge in the lap of nature in the northwestern Ardabil province, known for its magnificent pastures, hot mineral springs and towering mountains. The bridge over the river of...

90 years of systemic eradication of Azerbaijani history in Iran (video)

Araz News: When the Turkic Qajar Dynasty in Iran fell to the reign of the Pahlavids in 1925, the new rulers immediately began a policy of de-Turkifying Iran. Their revisionist anti-Turk policies aimed at separating Iran’s long Turkic heritage in favor of...

Annual “Cartoon Incident” protest widely covered in Turkish media for first time

ANKARA, Turkey Araz News: Every year on May 22, members of the Azerbaijani community in Iran and around the world commemorate the event they call “the cartoon incident.” This year, for the first time, the highly-circulated Turkish newspapers, Hurriyet, Milliyet and...

First edition of “Haray” Azerbaijani human rights magazine released

TABRIZ, South Azerbaijan Araz News: A the first edition of a new online magazine focused on human rights violations against Azerbaijanis in Iran has been published. The magazine aims to be a groundbreaking source for the plight of ethnic Azerbaijani-Turks in...

SOUTH AZERBAIJAN: Remembering our fallen heroes

Araz News: The following excerpt is a moving tribute to those who gave their lives defending the Turkic identity in South Azerbaijan on May 22, 2006. This day marked the 9th anniversary of the Cartoon Controversy protests, whereby hundreds of thousands of activists...

Iran Football Federation hacked

TEHRAN, Iran Araz News: A person or group calling themselves “Dark Demon” hacked the website of The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) on May 26th . Many activists believe that the hack was in retaliation for the Iranian championship game,...

Azerbaijani civil rights activists to serve 13 years in prison

Two South Azerbaijani civil rights activists, Huseynali Mohammadi and Taha Kermani were found guilty of “Insulting Islamic Sanctity” , “Insulting the Supreme leader of Islamic Republic” and “Causing Damage to Public Properties” and each were sentenced to 13 years in...