Current Events

"The Iranian government is an organization

based on happiness, love, and compassion.  (Pulls out sword and waves it as you)  But we will murder anyone who protests against us!"

ويديو:شجاعت مردم اروميه و بزدلی بسيجيان مامور سرکوب

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghNRTV1aAVY&feature=share

گزارش رسا از اعتراضات اخير آذربايجان

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_tlqTcQ5As&feature...

INF-OA on the brave struggles of our Azerbaijani ham-mihanan

//www.jebhemelli.net/htdocs/statements/2011/INFOB_Oroumieh.html

//www.jebhemelli.net/htdocs/events/2011/September/Oroumieh_Protests.html

Dorood Bar Azaris for Standing Up for Their Rights

This impending environment catastrophe would indirectly affect the welfare of non-Azari Iranians as well. The Islamic Republic has so far successfully portrayed the effects of lake dry-up a local issue. And, in my view, most non-Azari Iranians have not yet given the matter the attention it deserves. If non-Azari Iranians don’t lend their support to Azaris before this looming disaster, they should not be disheartened when Azaris look elsewhere for support. And, support they would get from Baku and Ankara.

thank you TheMrs - I agree

Demonstrations in Azabaijan goes back to early 80's where it was quelled by the brutality of the IRI.

Hopefully

it's the beginning of a greater uprising against such a incompetent government and parliament. Tehrani people  should also participate in  a rally in front of the Parliament to show their support.

My best wishes and support for all the brave Iranians

who risk their lives by standing against tyranny and opperssion.

May victory be on their side and may freedom, [secular] democracy and independence from foreign political interferrence is established in our mother land.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad

دموکرات های چپ تبریز

بار دیگر دلیرمردان و شیرزنان آذربایجان سر بلند کردند. این بار فرزندان
سرزمین آتشها پرومئته‌وار به بنیان تاریکی می‌تازند تا ارمغان روشنایی به
مردم ستمدیده و غرق در ظلمات میهنمان ارزانی دارند. امروز ستارخان‌ها و
حیدرعمواوغلوها, زینب پاشا‌ها و مرضیه‌های قهرمان ندا در ندای برادران و
خواهران خود در شهرها و روستاهای آذربایجان, فریاد بر فریاد ارومیه قهرمان و
با پیامی فرو خورده اما پر معنا برتمامی آزادیخواهان ایران, عرصه را بر
گزمگان و مزدوران بومی و غیربومی رژیم تنگ کرده‌اند.

//www.iran-chabar.de/

Mohammad Ala

Ask the distinguished cacophony IC chorus about the tent cities and people-power spark that has erupted all over Israel.

Ditto Re: Bernard Lewis and his Green Belt Theory plan.

Iranians already have a nightmare

It's called Islamic Republic (of thugs) and it has been there for quite a while now (just in case you hadn't noticed).

... the Bernard Lewis plan?!

... you did not get my point... let me add something else...

I am worried that the Bernard Lewis plan is now becmong a nightmare for Iranians.  I hope this helps you to understand what I was trying to convey. 

yes, you need to be worried.

One of these days, one of these local uprisings, be it over the environmental disatster, being arrersted for simply having fun doing a water fight, being out of work or not being paid for months, will be the spark which will ignite the huge fire which would engulf and destroy this criminal islamist regime.

In the mean time, dont worry about parazit, radio farda and VOA. they are nice people. Just enjoy the labor day with the biggest star and stripes in the neighborhood :) 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

I am worried . . .

I am worried about... pan-turks which get their support and funding from outside of Iran.

I am worried about... VOA, Radio Farda, and Parazit that receive their fundings from the same source....

I am worried....

Not joining Urmia and Tabriz is another loss opportunity

Not joining Urmia and Tabriz is another loss opportunity, every time I go Iranian websites and I see the frustration of people about silence and no one is making move and any riots or demonstration against this satanic regime. Well folks you have lost two opportunities by not joining your country man and women in Azerbaijan.

For the people like PENAR NIK, your comment is insult for those who got killed in Urmia and Tabriz, did you know that 25 people were killed after election of 2009? Did you know that 65 university students are still in prison since then?

For those who think people of Azerbaijan wants to separate is you are dead wrong, yes there are so called intellectuals who are living with past and they think they could separate Azerbaijan, but mass majority doesn’t think like them.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't

Azaris have been at the forefront of every nationalist movement in Iran. And they were present in the post election unrest. To say that their involvement in local issues is alarming is an ignorant comment.

Being involved in local issues doesn't make you "sensitive". I getted pissed when there's no garbage collection in my city when there's a strike. That doesn't mean I want to break up a country.

 Having said that, the right to self determination belongs to everyone especially if they have to constantly prove themselves.

تجمع های اعتراضی تبریز و ارومیه در رسانه های خارجی

رادیو فردا: تجمع‌های اعتراضی در تبریز و ارومیه برای نجات دریاچه ارومیه

از تبریز و ارومیه خبر می‌رسد که چندین هزار نفر از دوستداران دریاچه ارومیه بار دیگر، به خیابان‌ها ریخته و برای نجات دریاچه شعار سر دادند. همچنین گزارش شده است که ماموران امنیتی این بار نیز با معترضان به خشک شدن دریاچه ارومیه برخورد کرده‌اند:

//www.radiofarda.com/content/f8-tabriz-uroumi...

Pendar 'Nik' (gulp!)

....That was hard to say

[clears throat]

The Azari compatriots were absent from the 2009 rigged election protests?

Enjoy these home videos from Tabriz.

 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnzMlhBst1o

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDpVH11L90Y

 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKaCvug3UAE

On a personal level Pendar, can you tell me what satidfaction you receive for continuously advocating on behalf of the IR?  

Congratulations to our

Congratulations to our Azari compatriots on their resilience and determination not to let the Terrorist regime's arrogance go unchecked/ If the Basij and Revolutionary guards attack then retaliate.

Obama are you watching this? Now is the time to act! Strike at the revolutionary guard posts. Destroy them.  

یاشاسین آذربایجان! ایران با آذربایجان است

اخبار روز: جنبش ضددیکتاتوری که در تهران و سایر شهرها زیر فشار سرکوب بی امان حکومت به سستی و ضعف گراییده بود، در آذربایجان سر بلند کرده است. بهانه ی اعتراضات هر چند متفاوت است، اما هدف هر اعتراضی که امروز در ایران بر پا می شود، یکی است، مخالفت با سیستم دیکتاتوری که سیاست، اقتصاد، جامعه، فرهنگ، محیط زیست و همه ی عرصه های زندگی انسانی در کشور ما را هدف قرار داده و به سمت نابودی می کشاند

//www.akhbar-rooz.com/news.jsp?essayId=40222

IF

Think about it, if the world community can be convinced that the inaction of the IR over Urumiya can produce a simultaneous environmental and humanitarian future catastrophe, this may be sufficient grounds for some kind of intervention over the issue. I don't understand why enough Green parties and environmental groups around the world aren't saying anything about this.

lets hope somthing new

lets hope somthing new starts in Iran from all these... a new and stronger revolution.

Regime is branding our Azari compatriots as "separatists"

for their brave uprising against the islamist regime over the lake uromyeh disaster. Just as they accused our Kurdish, balooch and arab compatriots of "separatism". Well, I guess we are all "separatists". We want to separate our beloved country Iran from the clutches of a bunch of thieving, murdering corrupt islamist.

Happy now?? :)

I dedicate this clip of a "separatist" Azari woman to vildmose, for her clear and observing mind  and great sense of humour :)  

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

 Dear Former Fish: You

 Dear Former Fish:

You pay for the booze, I'll tell you my life story,  

by پندارنیک on Sat Sep 03, 2011 05:42 PM PDT

That was a genuine question. I was not trying to demean him in any way. I have never bought booze for a guy and I don't drink and usually don't like people who  need to drink to get things out of their chest.

I appreciate your valiant effort in defending Pendari but I disagree with you on all counts but don't feel like writing a long winded rebuttle. It is just not worth my time or yours..

Reform requires the consent of the corrupt

Vildemose

I don't condone this, but Pendar Nik is not the only person who believes Azaris did not come to the aid of the Green Movement in 2009.  Just do a simple google search in Farsi and you will find many articles written about this very subject and the reasons for it.

With all the respect I have for you from reading your comments and contributions, I am a little taken aback with your personal attacks on Pendar Nik and what makes you justified in doing this.

"Pendari: Do you have a drinking problem? Seriously? It fits your M.O." This is a personal attack on him. Also, this comment is full of personal attacks on him: "Nik Pendari, it seems like you have a problem with anyone who defies or threatens Velayate Faghih leadership. That said, even the usual apologists are starting to run out of room. Caught between a rock and a hard place - these smug self-centred lounge lizards are rapidly just becoming exposed as the hypocritical squirming snakes in Syria and Lebanon. When are you going to stop supporting the IRI??"

As a reader of Iranian.com, I don't think Pendar Nik is an IRI supporter. I do believe that he hates their guts as much as anybody else does, but his approach and views are different. But even if he supports the Islamic Republic, should he be called names?

Azeri's were not totally absent during the green movement

They just did not feel as offended by the mullahs rigging the vote, they already knew the mullahs are the most corrupt, dirty crooks in town,so they never took IRI elections as seriously as the patsys around the country which were offended.

Inviting the mullahs to administer a government is like asking a child molester to look after your child.  Azeri's see it, tehrani's see it, mashadi's see it and all Iranians see it,

the Regime loses its legitimacy, every time the earth goes around the sun, lets hope Iranians get justice soon and put as many of the regime behind bars as possible.

 Pendari: Do you have a

 Pendari: Do you have a drinking problem? Seriously? It fits your M.O.

Reform requires the consent of the corrupt

"Nik Pendari, it seems"

You pay for the booze, I'll tell you my life story, but

Read Rastgoo's for now.........

 Nik Pendari, it seems

 Nik Pendari, it seems like you have a problem with anyone who defies or threatens Velayate Faghih leadership.

 That said, even the usual apologists are starting to run out of room.
Caught between a rock and a hard place - these smug self-centred lounge lizards are rapidly just becoming exposed as the hypocritical squirming snakes in Syria and Lebanon.

When are you going to stop supporting the IRI??

Reform requires the consent of the corrupt

Azarbaijan

Azarbaijan is home to our country's greatest modern movement: the constitutional revolution.  Azaris like Satar Khan, Bagher Khan, Kasravi and Hedayat are Iranian national Icons.  Every modern revolution in Iran has started from Azarbaijan: the constitutional revolution and the 1979 revolution that was hijacked by the Islamists.  I really hope that this is the beginning of Azari involvement in the Green movement and this doesn't turn into an Azari separatist movement.  What do our fellow Azaris on Iranian.com think?  What are the slogans?