Comments on: South Azerbaijan Blogs

by: Christian

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:34:09 +0100

South Azerbaijan is by all means under the occupation of Persian regime and its resources, language and people are harassed and annihilated systematically. The Independence of South is only a matter of time and an independent south Azerbaijan would be a developed and prosperous country and also beneficial to neighbouring Persia. We will also have very good relations with Armenia and will help them develop their economy of course after resolving our problems with them.

by: Onnik

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:15:48 +0000

Winston, it is not my idea. I am merely posting links to further information so that people can see what might be going in on in Armenia’s southern neighbor. Speak to the guys who set up the blogs and not me.

by: Winston

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:24:17 +0000

by the way, what else Turks want in Iran?

the supreme leader of Iran is Azeri
The Bazaar is in hands of Turks. The grocery stores are run by Azeris.

This idea is just a cheap crap to further separatism with a weakened Iran but dream on.

by: Winston

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:20:07 +0000

there is no South Azerbaijan. it is called IRAN (PERSIA).

Your idea is totally absurd.

Remember that Baku belonged to IRAN until 170 years ago and if there is anything to be called by direction it is your Azerbaijan which should be called Northern Azerbaijan and you should come back to where you belong.

This idea is totally crap and serves the idea of idiot separatists in Iran.

by: Onnik

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:55:01 +0000

And it doesn’t stop there. This just in via a Kurdish blog:

US marines probe tensions among Iran’s minorities

The intelligence wing of the US marines has launched a probe into Iran’s ethnic minorities at a time of heightened tensions along the border with Iraq and friction between capitals.

Iranian activists involved in a classified research project for the marines told the FT the Pentagon was examining the depth and nature of grievances against the Islamic government, and appeared to be studying whether Iran would be prone to a violent fragmentation along the same kind of fault lines that are splitting Iraq.

The research effort comes at a critical moment between Iran and the US. Last week the Bush administration asked Congress for $75m to promote democratic change within Iran, having already mustered diplomatic support at the UN to counter Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme.

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Different in language and divided between followers of Sunni and Shia Islam, the ethnic minorities have little coherence. At times tensions among themselves are greater than with Tehran. Iran’s strongly centralised government does not release statistics on the ethnic groups that mainly inhabit sensitive border regions with Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Farsi-speaking Persians who dominate the central government are generally believed to make up a slim majority, followed by Azeris and Kurds in the north and west, Arabs in the oil-rich southwest and Baluch in the southeast.

A patchwork of Turkmen, Christian Armenians and Assyrians, Jews and tribal nomads are among many groups scattered across a country of some 68m people.

Diplomats in Washington expressed shock at the possible implications of the Marine Corps research.

by: Blogian

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:16:14 +0000

Thank you for the information, Onnik. At http://southazarbaijan.blogspot.com/, in the “Ethnicities in Iran and the population of the Turks” list, the word “armenians” is spelled with a lower-case “a,” a favorite nationalist Turkish tradition of dehumanizing Armenians…