Comments on: Why Has Tabriz Been Silent?

By: person

person — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:46:30 +0000

and i hope we stay silent. have fun making your jokes. so called “an iranian azeri” azeris dont migrate to tehran to not because they are wealthy and powerful.

Azeris in Iran lack basic cultural rights. There are NO SCHOOLS with Azerbaijani education. People get arrested for teaching Azerbaijani turkish in their houses. You are talking about millions of people here (There are different figures on how many Azerbaijanis live in Iran – from 16 millions up to 35 millions). When you are limited in speaking your own language you become a way too sensitive to jokes about your identity. This is just a part of discriminative policy. There is also economic discrimination, too much centralization of the government, unfair distribution of wealth. Plus human rights activists in Tehran refuse to take cases of Azeri activists. Even Iranian Persian speaking opposition abroad – for example in America – is against language rights for non-Persians. I agree with the comment of April the jokes could be innocently made just for entertainment. But again, you never know how sensitive it is untill you get into the shoes of the “second class human being”.

By: Q Line Orientalist

Q Line Orientalist — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:18:26 +0000

Thank you for your comment. I feel certain that you speak for a majority of Azerbaijanis in Iran.

By: An Iranian Azari

An Iranian Azari — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:21:07 +0000

As an Azari I know that I speak for the greater majority of the Iranian Azaris. We are the sons of Sattar khan and Baqer khan. We are the proud sons of Iran. There is only one Iran and Azarbaijan is an integral part of it. Azarbaijan will rise again is support of this revolution. It is only a matter of time. I agree that the rights of all nationalities in Iran must be held higher, be it with respect to the use of the native languages or other local customs. And I agree that Iran has always been slow in this regard. But it is totally untrue and unfair to say that the Azarbaijanis have been second class citizens in Iran. A cursory look will prove that not only is Tehran largely Azari but they are among the wealthiest of the people in Iran. Many of the prominent members of this regime are Azaris including the supreme leader himself! Those people who speak of Persian chauvinism are taking the “Turk” jokes too seriously or are trying to splinter Iran due to their own personal short comings in life. This is a time that we Iranians must all unite and fight this despicable regime. It is not a time for non-sense arguments about so and so Azaris having become Persian chauvinists. Anyone who doesn’t agree with the separatist ideas is a Persian Chauvinist? What do you want to join that landlocked poverty stricken Azarbaijan to teh north and become a larger poverty stricken nation? For the love of god put away your own personal shortcomings in life and think about the hungry and destitute masses that don’t have the money to fill their stomachs. More splintering is not the solution. More unity is the solution.

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By: an iranian turk

an iranian turk — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:21:40 +0000

We seemed to be silent but actually we talked with this silence to the Persians. In all Iran history Turks always were who made big changes, revolutions and stand against Persians enemies even unfortunately if they were our own brothers!!!
But what happened? We have been denied. Our culture has been stolen and advertised to the world as a part of Persian culture!!! Turks named changed to Azeri to avoid union with other Turks even within Iran itself. We have been counted as second level civil of Iran. By having almost half population of Iran we have been ignored.
Many try to ruin our language, our culture and our existence as Turks.
If you just try to go to Our hero’s burial place who brought freedom to Iran (( Sattar khan)) you’ll get arrested for having activity against this country and government.
If we just say we want schools in our language we’ll have same destiny.
YES in spite of all these spitefulness against us we were always in the first line to dye for Iran.
In May 2006 in Iran newspaper there was an article with this title: “how do we can act against cockroaches?” in this article we were cockroaches. What a shame!
Turkish People in Azerbaijanis cities (Tabriz, Uremia, Zanjan, Ardabil and even in small cities) protested against it. They have been attacked, arrested, killed and … many other crimes have happened to them but nobody, none of Persians, no other Iranian (none Turks) have supported them!!!
That’s a part of all actions ongoing against us. Who is supporting us nobody. We are alone. So why we have to be killed again for others who do not care about us at all?…

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:03:37 +0000

Amen!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:32:03 +0000

Thank you for your comments. I hope there will be a serious dialogue between the nationalities in Iran. It will be difficult on all sides, but it has to happen.

By: Vahid

Vahid — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:06:48 +0000

i believe that freedom movement of nations in iran is more comprehensive than that.
unfortunately human rights, democracy and freedom demands of iranian government and persian society (both reformists and conservatives and even the “entellectuals”, journalists and winners of the nobel prize) are only for persian community,
they are all common in violating human rights of non-persian communities of iran. this attitude is breaking unity and racism is the real separatism.

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