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They demonstrated together with their Northern brothers. Paris, Vancover, Torento, London and several western capitals.
The protesters locked them selves on the fences in front of UK’s parliament! but the censorship did not show them to the people of UK ! is there any political agreement between IRIB and west is been made to let them kill Azeries? God knows |
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Iran’s volatile ethnic mix
By Brenda Shaffer International Herald Tribune
FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts Several northwestern cities in Iran have recently been rocked by demonstrations and riots by ethnic Azerbaijani citizens. They were protesting a cartoon published in an official government newspaper that depicted the Azerbaijani minority as a cockroach and instructed people to deny it [...]
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
June 02, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - Ethnic unrest continues in parts of Iran, prompting some exiled members of Iranian minorities to step up calls for a concerted effort to topple the clerical regime.
Largely eclipsed by the international attention on Tehran’s nuclear program, the latest spate of protests — and the violent state response [...]
Share This | More...| PrintThe past few days have seen a string of deadly protests in predominantly Azeri northwestern Iran. What officially triggered the turmoil was the publication in the 19 May weekly supplement to the Tehran-based ‘Iran’ newspaper of a controversial cartoon showing an Azeri-speaking cockroach. Although “Iran” is a government-owned periodical, authorities blame alleged ‘enemies of the country’ - a term generally used to describe the United States, Israel, and Britain - for the ethnic unrest. But regional observers believe the controversial cartoon served as a catalyst for Iran’s Azeris to press anew for social, economic, and political demands.
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