The Listening Post - Spotlight on Azerbaijan-15 Feb 08-Pt 2

[TheDesertRose786]

Northern Azerbaijan (Independent part) and Southern Azerbaijan (Iranian part) both make up ONE NATION. If you disagree then you are simply UNEDUCATED and you have no knowledge about your country. I'm Azeri from the independent part and I wish both parts of Azerbaijan were one country separate country.

[oxtaybabayi]

Tabriz is the capital of south Azarbaijan (occupied by iran) and one of the major trade centers in Middle East. Its strategic location in North Azerbaijan,Turkey and Iran's neighborhood, gives it a special political and economical importance. Tabriz is surrounded by iran to the east Iraq to the west, Turkey to the north west and North Azarbaijan to the north.

Tabriz is a moderate size city with population of about 2 million. It is known for its mild summers and cold winters.

[zayqulu]

im an azeri from baku and i have persian girlfriend from tehran... she is so sweet... and gives a good fuck :) btw we live canada... and i have an armenian gf too,, and she sucks damn good :)) im honest guys

[Nika1968]

hey hey ... Are you OK? Get some sedative. calm down.

I have never heard such nonsence like this. What do you mean we have nothing in common? We are the same nation. We are separated nation. There are lots of azeris in North Azerbaijan who lost all contacts with their close relatives because of the separtion of our LAND.

[TabrizAzerbaijan]

To:Sattarkhan1967

Please do not use our leaders name, you are sold out Azeri, you bring shame to his name. Gunaz tv. only tv. who stood up for south Azerbaijanis interest. Everytime we asked for our civil right we get labeled as pan turk!, now days it is Aliyev, Israel, America or Turkey who did it!!!. I gurantee you North Azerbaijan is going to be ten times more developed than south Azerbaijan in very short time, even with all that corruption. Iran is in stone age.

[MrAzeriYaponchik]

You persians are ugly wankers!

Iranian azeris have nothing common with azeris from azerbaijan repablic!! Fuck you all, you are fucking terorists and sexualy hungry wankers, Iranians and armenians same kind of nation. Also Turkey fuck you too and Russia with Putin fuck you too!!!!

To call your self Azeri you must be born and live in azerbaijan, the rest we dont know you and dont wanna know you!!!!!!

PROUD TO BE AZERI!

[Nika1968]

what is this idiotic comentof yours - you must be born and live in Azerbaijan to consider yourself azeri? my sones were born in Canada, they are more azeri than you can imagine. With none azeri father they are fluent in azeri.

[Nika1968]

You live in UK, so talk about yourself are you azeri or not. From my side I pretend that you are not, so I dont feel ashamed for having representative of Azerbaijan like you. what is this "the rest we dont know you and dont wanna know you!!!!!!"

[Nika1968]

Who are those "We"? Are you talking on behalf of Azerbaijani ppl?

F...ck Russia, huh? And your favorites full of russian song and not even one video about Azerbaijan or any azeri song. Who are you? Some provocateur? armenian, russian? if you are Get lost then. Turklerinde poxu olsun tepene.

[bombaclart666]

what are yo taliking man yo stupid

[sattarkhan1967]

And the worst part of your program was the reference to the Turkustan newspaper and GunAz TV! That's your idea of press freedom? I suggest you hire an Azeri speaker and actually see what these "media" say. They are morons who just repeat the same pan-Turkist crap that hasn't changed for 100 years! Iran has moved far beyond this.

Also was funny that everyone in the South of Az watches Sahar TV. Your journalist didn't ask people why they watch it!! I think he wouldn't understand their answer.

[sattarkhan1967]

Iran is light-years ahead of Azerbaijan in terms of politics, economics, and business. Your reporter should've mentioned how people in Azerbaijan outside of Baku live. Even in Baku; just compare it with Tehran and you'll see a huge difference. And in Iran there's a huge movement that pushing for more reform and change; just look at how much has changed in the last 10, 15 years. There's nothing like that in Azerbaijan. The whole population is just Aliyev's slaves.

[urumiyehC]

have you seen how people outside Tehran live?

obviously you've never been.

most of them hate Aliev. They had a nationalist president, but Haydar sold them out to the US and Iran in order to come to power. In terms of politics Azerbaijan is much closer to Iran then Turkey. Culturally its closer to Turkey. Business wise it has both Iranian and Turkish companies very active in Baku.

[sattarkhan1967]

I usually like watching the Listening post, but this was one of your worst programs. The problem in Azerbaijan is not that they've arrested 10 journalists; it's that the Aliyev clan controls absolutely everything! business, politics, everything. But living there, I found it's always been like that in Azerbaijan, also in Soviet times, and the people don't know anything else.

And then your journalist with the Russian name says Iranians want more of this Azerbaijan??? You're dreaming!!!

[Yandiran]

Yasasin Azerbaycan

[bihal]

Yashasin Azerbaijan, Yashasin Iran

long live our beloved country IRAN

from an AZARI IRANIAN

[HarayHarayMenTurkem]

Azeri Turk people living in Iran are not 2 times of Azerbaijan republic population, but they are more that 3 times and around 30 million.

[123seena123]

South azerbaijani do want seperated from Iran, and unite with north azerbaijan.

We do not want to be treated as second class citizen in our own coutry by Fars(Hindus).

[azeroghli]

Right on. Very good topic to put some light on. Although the program contained some major mistakes (i.e. the exclusion of west Azerbaijan from the Iran's Azeri area map). My recommendation: Stay away from talks about separatism and instead focus on Azeri people lives and violation of their basic rights in Iran. Reports on Azeri prisoners, on the lack of even one Azeri school in Iran and .... Thank you for being a voice for the Azeri people who are under sever cultural repression in Iran.

[Kamalechka]

Doesn't it odd that Jew cover islam country and for whom - Arab broadcast AlJazeera? I'm not Natsi but it raise questions....

[garousi]

Good research and coverage!! Long live (yashasin) Azerbaijan! Long live freedom!

[nima53]

Idiots. Iranian Azeris dont want "independence". When will you ever figure this out? Iran belongs to Azeris. It's a country they helped form themselves (Pahlavis, Qajars, and Safavids were not Persians). They founded its constitution in 1907. Tehran has more Azeris in it than any other city in the world. Seek independence from whom? Yourself?!

[123seena123]

To nima53,How do know Turk Azerbaijani do not want independence? How did you come to that conclusion. Pahlavi's were Fascist Fars, Reza shah suppressed Turkish language, he was put in Trone be British, not Turk. Half of Tehran are Turk because there is not enough jobs in Azerbijan, since most oil money being spent in Fars area. Are you sure you know who is idiot?

[nima53]

Actually what I wrote above were not my words, but the words of Azari leader "Reza Baraheni". Dont beleive me? Go look him up on this matter. Besides, it seems you havent been to Iran, otherwise you'd notice that the Azaris are actually running the Sepah Pasdaran at top levels. Not to mention that Khamenei himself is an Azari. So please, stop supporting a lie. Azari independence from Iran is like English independence from Britain. You dont seek independence from YOUR OWN HOME! Yasashar Iran!

[123seena123]

Since when Reza Baraheni is Azeri leader?!!

Khamenei is islamic leader, as such he is not concern with Azerbaijanis issues, atleast I do not see him doing anything to help out, like helping to pass law so we could have classes in Turk Azerbaijani language,

there are courses in Farsi,Arab,English,French and Armenian but not Turkish Azerbaijani.

[nima53]

That u dont consider Reza baraheni an Azari leader is your personal problem. Ahmad Kasravi also considered Azaris as Iranians too. And Yahya Safavi (Pasdaran head), Parviz Fattah (current Oil minister), Parviz Davoudi (first vice prez), are all Azari. Even Khatami is half Azari. And btw, another lie of yours: Tabriz University does actually teach courses in Azari.

[mtsesimt]

long live azerbaijan!

long live freedom!

[elicktxu]

misleading report: azeris in comprise 35 million

[merendli]

long live azerbaijan , we support unification, yashasin butov ve vahid azerbaycan, down with so so iran , olum olsun kopek shovenistlere ,olum olsun irana.

[fenberg1]

1) there are no tiwce as much Azeris living Iran Sir. Wrong information. population of Azerbaijanis in Iran is min 20 million.

2) In the map showed up here, Why did they wipe off province of West Azerbaijan in Iran? what happyende to Urmu (Urmiyeh)? another major mistake.

[BIGMEL1981]

power to the media

[essexli]

Good research and coverage!!