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IRANIAN AZARBAIJANIS ETERNALLY REMAIN INTEGRAL COMPATRIOTS IN SHAPING THE HISTORY AND LIFE OF IRAN
We the worldwide signatories herein comprised of educators, scholars, historians and all those with a basic knowledge of the historical perspective of South and Central Asia, and Asia Minor, do hereby express our grave concern over a recent move by shadowy individuals and financed centers with arteriole motives that are attempting to portray Iranian Azerbaijanis as victims of 'cultural' and 'linguistic' discrimination in Iran. The historical community regards this act as an affront to all Iranians including the Azarbaijanis of Iran. A petition circulating on the Internet on this topic deliberately misleads the reader into believing that the current regime in Iran, notwithstanding its rather poor human and democratic rights records as applied to the 70 million Iranians across the board, is selectively targeting one ethnic group for 'discrimination' when in fact a large number of grievances run widely across regional and political strata. Moreover, the aforementioned petition deliberately fails to address the powerful historical and contemporary influence and contributing position of Iranian Azarbaijanis in the political (both within Iran and the Diaspora), cultural, historical and commercial life of Iran.
Iran as a nation with great many diverse ethnicities since its inception of nearly three years ago has been a multilingual nation and all languages are equal. The inscriptions of Darius the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty (circa 325 BCE) are in four languages: Aramaic, Babylonian, Elamite and Old Persian. The Persian language has been a national vernacular employed by Iran's widely diverse ethnic and linguistic groups as a common cultural bond. The said petition also fails to address the fact that Azari-Turkish is freely spoken across Iran, especially in the capital Tehran where Iranians Azeris comprise the majority.
Finally, the failure of the petition is in its failing attempt to narrate issues in divisively ethnic terms (Group A is oppressing Group B) when in fact the issues stem from a complex myriad of political and economic factors that directly affect the entire spectrum of Iran's multivaried population. The petition has been carefully crafted to avoid its identification with separatist movements; however, this is contradicted by a quick study of its language and that of the SANAM movement website of Mr. Mahmoudali Chehreganli. The photographs of the website depict SANAM supporters flashing the Grey Wolf insignia, the official salute of the violently racist pan-Turanian Grey Wolf movement. Pan-Turanian groups are notorious in their attempts at re-narrating history and the fabrication of grievances to help further violent and divisive racialist motives. Protests against pan-Turanian attempts at historical revisionism in western universities and false accusations of human rights violations at world platforms such as the UN have been repeatedly lodged by Armenian and Greek academics over a number of years, as they grieve for their historical recognition of Armenian genocide and oppressive subjugation of the Greeks, respectively.
Any application of 'cultural genocide' on the Azerbaijanis would be fatally detrimental to the culture of Iran as much of what and who Iran is today is indebted to Azerbaijanis such as Sattar Khan, Bagher Khan, Shah Abbas or Shams Tabrizi. While the writers of the cited petition couch their language in the name of language rights and how Persian is being "imposed" on the Azeris, they conveniently fail to mention that Azerbaijan has been a key centre for the development of Persian language and literature, and in all likelihood the birth place of Zoroaster, the founder of the monotheistic Zoroastrian religion, for over several thousand years.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Kaveh Farrokh, Independent Historian Scholar
[email protected]
British Columbia
We the worldwide signatories herein comprised of educators, scholars, historians and all those with a basic knowledge of the historical perspective of South and Central Asia, and Asia Minor, do hereby express our grave concern over a recent move by shadowy individuals and financed centers with arteriole motives that are attempting to portray Iranian Azerbaijanis as victims of 'cultural' and 'linguistic' discrimination in Iran. The historical community regards this act as an affront to all Iranians including the Azarbaijanis of Iran. A petition circulating on the Internet on this topic deliberately misleads the reader into believing that the current regime in Iran, notwithstanding its rather poor human and democratic rights records as applied to the 70 million Iranians across the board, is selectively targeting one ethnic group for 'discrimination' when in fact a large number of grievances run widely across regional and political strata. Moreover, the aforementioned petition deliberately fails to address the powerful historical and contemporary influence and contributing position of Iranian Azarbaijanis in the political (both within Iran and the Diaspora), cultural, historical and commercial life of Iran.
Iran as a nation with great many diverse ethnicities since its inception of nearly three years ago has been a multilingual nation and all languages are equal. The inscriptions of Darius the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty (circa 325 BCE) are in four languages: Aramaic, Babylonian, Elamite and Old Persian. The Persian language has been a national vernacular employed by Iran's widely diverse ethnic and linguistic groups as a common cultural bond. The said petition also fails to address the fact that Azari-Turkish is freely spoken across Iran, especially in the capital Tehran where Iranians Azeris comprise the majority.
Finally, the failure of the petition is in its failing attempt to narrate issues in divisively ethnic terms (Group A is oppressing Group B) when in fact the issues stem from a complex myriad of political and economic factors that directly affect the entire spectrum of Iran's multivaried population. The petition has been carefully crafted to avoid its identification with separatist movements; however, this is contradicted by a quick study of its language and that of the SANAM movement website of Mr. Mahmoudali Chehreganli. The photographs of the website depict SANAM supporters flashing the Grey Wolf insignia, the official salute of the violently racist pan-Turanian Grey Wolf movement. Pan-Turanian groups are notorious in their attempts at re-narrating history and the fabrication of grievances to help further violent and divisive racialist motives. Protests against pan-Turanian attempts at historical revisionism in western universities and false accusations of human rights violations at world platforms such as the UN have been repeatedly lodged by Armenian and Greek academics over a number of years, as they grieve for their historical recognition of Armenian genocide and oppressive subjugation of the Greeks, respectively.
Any application of 'cultural genocide' on the Azerbaijanis would be fatally detrimental to the culture of Iran as much of what and who Iran is today is indebted to Azerbaijanis such as Sattar Khan, Bagher Khan, Shah Abbas or Shams Tabrizi. While the writers of the cited petition couch their language in the name of language rights and how Persian is being "imposed" on the Azeris, they conveniently fail to mention that Azerbaijan has been a key centre for the development of Persian language and literature, and in all likelihood the birth place of Zoroaster, the founder of the monotheistic Zoroastrian religion, for over several thousand years.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Kaveh Farrokh, Independent Historian Scholar
[email protected]
British Columbia
532 Signatures
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Shawn T
- Profession--Your job title
- Publisher
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Azarbaijan is part of Iran. We condemn any attempt to separat any piece of Iran, by outsider as well as any ambitious insiders.
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Sherry B
- Profession--Your job title
- Dentist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Jamshid G
- Profession--Your job title
- Professor of systems sciences, Villonova University, CEO of Interact
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- В
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khashayar c
- Profession--Your job title
- student
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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chirazi
- Profession--Your job title
- Research scientist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Mohammad J
- Profession--Your job title
- Assistant Professor of Economics
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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taher
- Profession--Your job title
- doctor
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Joseph S
- Profession--Your job title
- Pasargadae Institute founder
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Ali Ashraf S
- Profession--Your job title
- theacher of mathematics
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Mehdi T
- Profession--Your job title
- Post-Doc Scientist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Yashasin Iranimiz!
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Peymon
- Profession--Your job title
- Researcher and Analyst
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Mahtab
- Profession--Your job title
- Office manager
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- I am Persian....Azeris ARE Persian.
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Dr. Pirouz A
- Profession--Your job title
- Professor
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- IRAN and the greater Azarbaijan, that includes the post Soviet's fabricated country of Azarbaijan and most Turkey, at one point in recent past were all integral parts of IRAN. Leave us alone in our Iran's Azarbaijan and we might forgive but shall never forget what you the fifth column from the north and the west did to us in hisotry.
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Dr. Kaveh F
- Profession--Your job title
- Historian
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Azeris are an intengral element of Iran
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amir a
- Profession--Your job title
- PhD student
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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DARA -- Princeton, N
- Profession--Your job title
- Doctor of Democracy
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Azari-Iranians are already an important part of the oldest, richest, proudest and most fantastic nation that ever existed in the history of this planet-- IRAN. Still have questions: call the most powerful man on Earth, Hossein Reza-Zadeh!
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Fuad Adib, P
- Profession--Your job title
- Consuslting Engineer
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Azaris have played a prominent role in every social development in the modern history of Iran.
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Bagher R H
- Profession--Your job title
- Businessman/Peace activist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Long live peaceful Iran, including Azarbaijan Khozestan Kurdistan Baluchstan, Turkmanstan and all "Stans" Provinces.
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Moji A
- Profession--Your job title
- Founder, Universal Coalition for Interfaith and Intercultural Knowledge and Action (UCIIKA)
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Those who use the device of divide and conquer are true killers of civility and life on our imperiled planet
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Farhad A
- Profession--Your job title
- Sir Harold Bailey's Research Associate, Oxford
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Deportation of those who aspire to dismember Iran is an effective remedy
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Dr. David N. R
- Profession--Your job title
- University Professor
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- As the history of Iran and the region in the past 100 years teaches us well, cheap sold out mercenaries for dismemberment of Iran, have (Hassan Pishevari et al of the 50пїs) and will emerge on the scene to serve the prime geopolitical interest of others. No one could argue that the tens of millions of Iranian Azaris, along with millions of Kurds, Lurs, Balucchis, Turkmen, Guilanis, Mazandaranis, along with the Persians should be treated with much more humanity and humility by the government ruling Iran. In fact, the true empowerment of ALL Iranians from ALL walks of life through democracy, human rights, equity and justice, is the only safeguard against external aggressions and chaos. To exploit inadequacies and imperfection in an integrated family, IRAN, from outside by advocating its dismemberment is absurd, ludicrous and beyond any comprehensive norm or acceptable by anyone with an IQ more than 50. Rhetorically speaking, , would it be justified for all Iranians to unite & start an all out battle vs them?NO
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Fatema Soudavar F
- Profession--Your job title
- Independent scholar
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Tne attempts to fragment the Iranian identity are felt by the likes of myself as an effort to break me apart. This was already done once in the 19th century by the British and Russians. Any further attempts to do so will be devastating to the majority of Iranians and their sense of identity. It is immpossible to predict the long-term consquences of such acts.
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Tomas
- Profession--Your job title
- Computer Engineer
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Bravo Dr Farrokh
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Dr. Simin S
- Profession--Your job title
- Public Health Professional
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Azaris remain eternally integral part of Iran
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Dr. M. Reza V
- Profession--Your job title
- Professor
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Azarbaijan is an integral part of Iran. The selfish elements that spread hatred and ethnic rivalries ar not to be trusted by anyone incl7uding the governments that push them to do this.
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Ali A
- Profession--Your job title
- Research Associate
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- The beauty of the Iranian culture is a result of amalgamation of all who have been living there for centuries. There had been so many attempts to disintegrate their unity but there wont be any success, since we are still alive and together.
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Manoochehr M
- Profession--Your job title
- M.D.
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Reza R
- Profession--Your job title
- Software engineer
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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k.saidi
- Profession--Your job title
- M.D.
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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mohammad reza r
- Profession--Your job title
- PhD
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Javad F
- Profession--Your job title
- Businessman
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- British-Soviet plot to divide Iran will face fierce opposition in/out side of Iran.
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Davood A. L
- Profession--Your job title
- Healthcare
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Iran is Iran and we will fight to ensure she stays such...
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Bobby R
- Profession--Your job title
- Student
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- В
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Mazd R
- Profession--Your job title
- Senior Engineer
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Our Azarbajani brothers and sisters will always remain Iranian
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Nader R
- Profession--Your job title
- Businessman
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Can any Azari possibly claim not to have an Iranica Heritage? May any Iranian seriously think not to have had some Azari in him/her? Those who think that Azarbaijan is not Iran, and Iran is not Azarbaijan, prove the blindness of Pan-Turanic BLIND Nationalist madness. Up to late 1920s, there was ONLY one ORIGINAL and GENUINE Gem Azarbaijan. Soviets invented a copy term calling it AzErbaijan. It was Alania, Albania, TransCaucasia - an assemblage of what was called baku, Nakhchivan, Ordoobaad, Shirvan, Ganjeh, ... Azarbaijan is a very Iranian Name: Azarabadegan. The term Azarbaijan has NO Turkish or Turanic root! Up to 400 years ago, they all spoke ONLY Persian. Ottoman invasion and occupation changed the language, but NOT the Heritage. While Ottomans were MASSACRING the Armenians and annexing Western Armenia into their Empire, AzAris gave refuge to Armenians! Pan Turanism is worse than Serbian Nationalism of Slobadan Milosovic. It spells Hell and War and Bloodshed. Remember Armenian Genocide 1915?
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Shirin T
- Profession--Your job title
- Journalist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- The separatists can dream on for ever but we sure will fight for every inch of that sacred land. Azeries were among the most well off people among the entire nation, what are they complaining about? . How many Azari Army Generals did we have? How many wealthy merchants, wealthy Bazaries, wealthy Civil Servants? Azarbayejan was one of the most prosperous States with the highest ratio in education. What is wrong with them? It sure is an honor to belong to that place and that history, I think.
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Pejman A
- Profession--Your job title
- musician, journalist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- Please do not try to re-write history!
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Anna M
- Profession--Your job title
- student
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Ramin R
- Profession--Your job title
- Consultant
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- В
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Fereydoun Siassi, P
- Profession--Your job title
- University professor
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Pirouz M
- Profession--Your job title
- professor of T.M. University of Tehran
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- I subscribe to the text of this petition
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Zohreh R
- Profession--Your job title
- TV producer / host
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Reza D
- Profession--Your job title
- City Planner for the City of New York
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- As a Ghashghaee Turk I would respect a federalist Iran with autonomy for different Ethnicities within Beautiful Iran as is.
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Reza S
- Profession--Your job title
- writer
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- В
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Roya S
- Profession--Your job title
- I/T Specialist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Mohammad N
- Profession--Your job title
- Professor
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Sepand
- Profession--Your job title
- Student
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
- Comments? Please remain objective & respectful
- В
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Reza N
- Profession--Your job title
- Podiatrist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Parviz M. S
- Profession--Your job title
- Research geneticist
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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Maryann D
- Profession--Your job title
- Union organizer
- Azeri-Iranian Ethnic Heritage?
- No
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