Iran Is Not Persia.
Iran is a Multi-National country, and the population of South Azerbaijanis live in Iran, is approaching 30,000,000. Yet, the very basic human rights (rights to education and learn how to read and write in their mother language in their own homelands) of Non-Persian nations, Azerbaijanis; Arabs; Baluchis; Kurds; Turkmem and others_ in Iran have been ignored for almost a century. The analogy is the banning and depriving Welsh people, of learning and using the Welsh language in Wales! though, in much larger scale. Yet in Iran, it goes even further: children are often humiliated and punished for speaking in their mother language in schools! They are afflicted by this barbaric behaviour and traumatised for life. They often think: why they were not born as Persian?! Mother-Tongue Dilemma from the United nation educational, scientific and cultural organisation
In Southern Azerbaijan in Iran, men and women are working peacefully and often at great risk to themselves and their families to secure human rights and fundamental freedoms to follow their consciences and speak their minds without fear, to choose those who would govern them and hold their leaders accountable and to achieve equal justice under the law.
The South Azerbaijanis in Iran believe that it is the duty of freedom loving and free nations of the world to support these courageous men and women and help them to achieve the justice they deserve as humans.
The Azerbaijani Human rights activists lack resources to challenge the oppressive Iranian regime using the very basic means of communication while risking their lives. The movement for national rights in Iran lacks international experience or any support from outside, but still constitutes the strongest challenge to the Iranian regime. The Western policy toward Iran is Tehran-centric; while the biggest challenge for the Iranian regime is in the provinces where ethnic minorities are concentrated.
We are asking for support to reach Azerbaijanis and other minorities in Iran. They need to know that the world is paying attention to them. They need to know that putting their lives at risk for equal rights is not in vain. They need hope, And they are looking to the international community for it.
Knowing they have international support will give them the strength to continue fighting for equal rights, and that means greater stability and democracy for Iran and the wider Middle East. Iranian minorities are agents of change in a country that needs it badly. They are struggling for a positive transformation in Iran; and they need all the help they can get.
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The main ethnic nations and languages in Iran, www.ethnologue.com 1997, (from 1996 Iranian statistical centre)
Iran is a Multi-National country, and the population of South Azerbaijanis live in Iran, is approaching 30,000,000. Yet, the very basic human rights (rights to education and learn how to read and write in their mother language in their own homelands) of Non-Persian nations, Azerbaijanis; Arabs; Baluchis; Kurds; Turkmem and others_ in Iran have been ignored for almost a century. The analogy is the banning and depriving Welsh people, of learning and using the Welsh language in Wales! though, in much larger scale. Yet in Iran, it goes even further: children are often humiliated and punished for speaking in their mother language in schools! They are afflicted by this barbaric behaviour and traumatised for life. They often think: why they were not born as Persian?! Mother-Tongue Dilemma from the United nation educational, scientific and cultural organisation
In Southern Azerbaijan in Iran, men and women are working peacefully and often at great risk to themselves and their families to secure human rights and fundamental freedoms to follow their consciences and speak their minds without fear, to choose those who would govern them and hold their leaders accountable and to achieve equal justice under the law.
The South Azerbaijanis in Iran believe that it is the duty of freedom loving and free nations of the world to support these courageous men and women and help them to achieve the justice they deserve as humans.
The Azerbaijani Human rights activists lack resources to challenge the oppressive Iranian regime using the very basic means of communication while risking their lives. The movement for national rights in Iran lacks international experience or any support from outside, but still constitutes the strongest challenge to the Iranian regime. The Western policy toward Iran is Tehran-centric; while the biggest challenge for the Iranian regime is in the provinces where ethnic minorities are concentrated.
We are asking for support to reach Azerbaijanis and other minorities in Iran. They need to know that the world is paying attention to them. They need to know that putting their lives at risk for equal rights is not in vain. They need hope, And they are looking to the international community for it.
Knowing they have international support will give them the strength to continue fighting for equal rights, and that means greater stability and democracy for Iran and the wider Middle East. Iranian minorities are agents of change in a country that needs it badly. They are struggling for a positive transformation in Iran; and they need all the help they can get.
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The main ethnic nations and languages in Iran, www.ethnologue.com 1997, (from 1996 Iranian statistical centre)
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