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	Azerbaijan
		In both of the Iranian Azerbaijan provinces Azeris dominate, while Kurds and Armenians are important minorities.
		Orumiyeh is the capital of West Azerbaijan and has 435,000 inhabitants (10th largest Iranian city) (all of the 1996 census).
		Azerbaijan is a mountainous land, and part of the Zagros Mountains, but with fertile lowlands.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/azerbaijan.htm (549 words)

	Azerbaijan, country, Asia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Strategically situated at the gateway to SW Asia, Azerbaijan is bounded by Iran on the south, where the Aras (Araks) River divides it from Iranian Azerbaijan; by the Caspian Sea on the east; by Russia’s Dagestan Republic on the north; and by Armenia on the west.
		Azerbaijan occupies the western ranges of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus and the Kura River valley.
		Azerbaijan declared itself independent of the USSR in Aug., 1991, and became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
	www.bartleby.com /65/az/Azerbaij.html (934 words)

	AllRefer.com - Azerbaijan, region, Iran, Iran (Iranian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The region is bounded in the N by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan (from which it is separated by the Aras River) and in the W by Turkey and Iraq.
		Azerbaijan remained entirely in the possession of the shahs until the northern part was ceded to Russia in the treaties of Gulistan (1813) and Turkmanchai (1828).
		Iranian troops occupied the region in Nov., 1946, and the autonomous movement was suppressed.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AzerbjIrn.html (561 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Azeris in Iran, Salman J. Borhani
		Intertwined with this concept is the primordial idea that the inhabitants of the Iranian plateau have a common Persian heritage that is unique and special among the vast swath of enemy invaders at all of the empire's borders.
		Iranian Azerbaijan, densely populated and industrial, is intensely valuable to Tehran, while the newly independent Republic of Azerbaijan holds huge amounts of oil and gas ready to be exploited by foreign energy companies.
		The war against the Iranian plateau's historic enemy, the Arabs from the western lowlands, cemented the feeling of Iranian nationalism that was able to eclipse ethnic nationalism across the new Islamic Republic.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2003/August/Azeri (2793 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East - Iran's lurking enemy within
		Iranians point out their country's millennia-old history and are at pains to explain how the concept of "Iran" acts as a super-narrative, thus effectively suppressing any serious separatist impulse.
		The disturbances in Iranian Azerbaijan (which comprises the four provinces of East and West Azerbaijan, Zanjan and Ardebil) sparked by a provocative cartoon in one of the Tehran dailies is indicative of the ethnic unrest that has surfaced throughout the country's periphery over the past 24 months.
		While the Iranian government is scrambling to collect intelligence on PEJAK (with sources on the ground adamant that the organization's camps in Iraq have been lightly penetrated), there is little appreciation of the local, national and international factors that are driving the emergence and consolidation of the new generation of Kurdish separatists.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/HF08Ak03.html (2544 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		The visit of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan early last month was generally met with cynicism and lack of enthusiasm by the more nationalist elements of the press in both countries.
		The history of the Safavid Empire is the history of the early Iranian nation-state, dominated as it is by the twinned forces of Iranian nationalism and Shi'ism.
		The latter treaty stipulates that the Caspian is an "Iranian and Soviet Sea" underpinned by the "principles of equality and exclusivity".
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/FI28Ak01.html (2377 words)

	Collection Azerbaijan, An Inseparable Part of Iran
		Azerbaijan Joz'-e La- Yanfak-e Iran or Azerbaijan, an Inseparable Part of Iran is the 'first publication of Iranians residing in the Caucasus'.
		It is worth mentioning that at least fifty thousand Iranian migrants, mostly Persian speakers from Azerbaijan and Turkish speakers from Northern Iran lived in Baku and its suburbs since the second decade of the 20th century.
		Azerbaijan has a common history with Iran and that it is a part of Iranian territory.
	www.iisg.nl /collections/azerbaijan.php (2049 words)

	Iran Can Blow Up Azerbaijan From Within (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Lezghins, Talyshs and Kurds are the indigenous inhabitants of Azerbaijan.
		In the summer of 1993, on the background of destabilization of political situation in Azerbaijan, leaders of national movement have declared the establishment of Talysh Republic.
		In the light of worsening economic crisis, and Damascus' loss of its positions in Lebanon, the antigovernment acts of Kurds may provoke mass manifestations of the Sunnite population against the regime of the Allawi minority.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=201 (1651 words)

	IranExpert:Rumblings in Azerbaijan -- Bush's Hawks Eye Northern Iran
		SANAM operates inside Iran, in the Iranian province of Azerbaijan -- a region separate from the country of Azerbaijan, the former Soviet republic on Iran's northern border.
		Iranian Azerbaijan is fertile ground for a new Iranian political movement.
		If Iranian Azerbaijan were to take a sharp turn toward the United States, a new pipeline linking the Caspian fields with the Iraqi oil delivery system would be constructed in a trice.
	www.iranexpert.com /2003/azerbaijaniran6june.htm (898 words)

	22_3
		The Iranian operation was uncovered in Georgia with the interception by Georgian intelligence of a consignment of some 40,000 religious pamphlets, written in Georgian, for Georgian Muslims.
		After the shooting began between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, one of the best weapons the Azerbaijanis had against the Armenians, who were receiving military assistance from Russia, was their ability to cut the natural gas pipeline upon which Armenia depended for most of its energy.
		Iranian experts are looking into ways to use the canal for the transportation of oil from offshore Caspian deposits to its terminals on the Persian Gulf.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/usazerb/223.htm (1664 words)

	History of Azerbaijan
		Historically Azerbaijan is located in the territory from the Caucasian ridge in the north till Hamadan (central Iran) in the south, from the Goyche (Sevan) and Uremia rivers in the west till the Caspian Sea in the east.
		The territory of Albania stretched from the Caucasian ridge in the north till the Araz river in the south, from the Goyche (Sevan) lake in the west till the Caspian Sea in the east.
		Then, Azerbaijan alphabet was transferred from Latin to Cyrillic by decision of the Soviet government.
	www.azerbaijan.00page.com (1801 words)

	National Iranian American Council - NIAC - Washington DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nassibli prefaced his statistics with the warning that it was problematic pinpointing the population due to the fact that there had not been an effective census in the country for quite a while.
		The message was that the Azeris at the time of the Iranian revolution were not quick to abandon Tehran to serve the interests of Moscow.
		In previous speaking occasions in the US, Chehregani had answered a reporter’s question to his statistics by stating that the Iranian government skewed the population statistics to make the Persians appear to be the majority while reducing the Azeri population to merely a quarter of the population.
	www.niacouncil.org /pressreleases/press074.asp (1397 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Azerbaijan, Caspian, Omid Marvi
		His avowedly pan-Turkik and pan-Azeri rhetoric and his calls for a "Greater Azerbaijan", plainly terrified the Iranian leaders who are always wary of any threats that may awaken ethnic tensions in their country.
		In the case of the ongoing dispute with Azerbaijan, Iran would be deprived of the highly-prized Alburz field, believed to contain large reserves of crude oil..
		Azerbaijan with one seventh the population of Iran and a much smaller GNP is particularly vulnerable to a conflageration.
	www.iranian.com /Features/2002/May/Marvi (1148 words)

	Iran/Azerbaijan: Iranian President Visits Azerbaijan, Calls For Closer Ties
		"The border between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan is a border of peace, friendship, and brotherhood," Khatami said.
		He added that Iran considers Nagorno-Karabakh part of Azerbaijan and that the use of force in settling international problems is "unacceptable."
		"The significance of the visit is [the] development of good neighborly relationships with Azerbaijan, bearing in mind that we have certain difficulties with that state in connection with the Caspian Sea," he said.
	www.parstimes.com /news/archive/2004/rfe/iran_azerbaijan.html (545 words)

	Azerbaijan Reexamines Iranian Relations [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		By reopening the possibility of an Iranian route, Azerbaijan is sending warning signals to the United States that more aggressive Western actions are needed in the Caucasus.
		The increase in the significance of the Iran factor in Azerbaijan's foreign policy took place precisely in December, which is the final deadline for settling problems.
		And Azerbaijan, which is trying to ward off imperial claims, has taken the path of integration into the West and is facing increasing pressure from Russia.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3889db397664.htm (1417 words)

	Azerbaijan - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Azerbaijan, Azeri Azerbaycan, officially Republic of Azerbaijan, republic (2005 est.
		Aliyev was reelected in 1998, and his New Azerbaijan party retained power in the Nov., 2000, parliamentary elections, which like the 1995 balloting was not regarded as free and fair.
		Azerbaijan - Part 1 - The Prospects & Geology.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-azerbaij.html (1181 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iranian security forces cracked down on tens thousands of offended Azeris, who took to the streets in Tehran and in the major northwestern Iranian cities such as Tabriz, Urumieh, Ardebil, Maragheh, and Zenjan.
		In 1945, at Soviet instigation, an Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was proclaimed in Iranian Azerbaijan.
		Azerbaijan is also walking a fine line between sympathy for the Iranian Azeris and its economic and political interests with the Islamic regime.
	www.washingtoninstitute.org /templateC05.php?CID=2476 (1336 words)

	Reuters AlertNet - Azerbaijan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Azerbaijan is bounded to the east by the Caspian Sea, to the north by the Russian Federation and Georgia, and by Armenia to the west.
		To the south, the river Araks divides it from Iranian Azerbaijan.
		Some 1,500 people in Azerbaijan – refugees, displaced people, orphans, the elderly and other vulnerable populations – have had their eyes examined and received free eye glasses from a visiting team from Fuji Optical.
	www.alertnet.org /thefacts/countryprofiles/152512.htm (306 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Police in Azerbaijan break up anti-Iranian protest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Police in Azerbaijan broke up a demonstration Friday of some 30 people near the Iranian embassy in Baku staged to protest the treatment of Iranian ethnic Azeris in the Islamic republic's northern provinces.
		Azerbaijani opposition parties and Iranian Azeri dissident groups claim that scores of Azeris were killed and hundreds arrested during protests that erupted in Tabriz after an Iranian newspaper printed an offensive cartoon in May. Those claims could not be verified independently.
		Iranian officials have blamed the West for stoking tensions between Iran's Farsi and Turkic-speaking populations but the United States has denied involvement.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=22353 (515 words)

	Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan, Turkic Crimes Against Humanity, Karabagh
		General Ravil Rzaev, the commander of Azerbaijan's air force, told journalists in Baku on 13 August that the country's air defense forces will shoot down Iranian and other foreign aircraft that violate Azerbaijan's airspace "if the life of our citizens is endangered," Turan and Interfax reported.
		Azerbaijan is fertile ground for a new Iranian political movement.
		It is known that the citizens of that country would welcome reunification with Iranian Azerbaijan, something the Iranians do not favor.
	www.geocities.com /master8885/index.html (3265 words)

	Virtual Azerbaijan Republic -- Azerbaijan-Iranian Relations
		Touching on the route of Azerbaijan's oil pipeline, the diplomat opined that "a number of Azerbaijani specialists and neutral experts have emphasized that the route going through Iran and Turkey is more logical and perfect." According to him, the other versions have political motives, and Azerbaijan should independently state its position in the issue.
		Azerbaijan addressed twice all the consortium members and held several meetings with the American companies as well as officials representing America, trying to change their minds.
		It is not Israel, but Armenia that has seized Azerbaijan's lands, and its is the Armenians' arms that have forced one million of your brothers to flee their places, and it is the Armenians who have massacred 30 thousand Azerbaijanis.
	www.zerbaijan.com /azeri/hhz3.htm (10681 words)

	Registan.net » Azerbaijan & The Iranian Nuclear Showdown
		US officials stationed in Baku said that Azerbaijan, wedged in between Russia in the north and Iran in the south, could possibly use the 20 million Azeris who lived in northern Iran to convince the radical regime and its extremist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to back down from developing nuclear arms.
		Iranian Azeris are widely known to be well-integrated into Iranian society and the state.
		On April 9, he told an audience of policy-makers, diplomats, journalists and students at the Johns Hopkins University Central Asia-Caucasus Institute that a strong sense of Azerbaijani nationalism is growing in Iran, predicting the possibility of Azeri-led unrest unless the demands of this “movement” were met.
	www.registan.net /?p=6236 (1096 words)

	Common Military Force in Caspian Sea? - Persian Journal Article Latest Iran news & Iranian newspaper articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		However, the question remains that: "is this policy to the benefit all Caspian States?" Definitely the Republic of Azerbaijan is opposed to the idea of a common military force with the Russians due to the good and growing relations of the Republic of Azerbaijan with the USA and NATO.
		Azerbaijan Republic is the first place for the American presence.
		The Iranians have never forgotten the memory of the imposed war of one of the most advanced armies of the world with the backward army of Iran during the Qajar period that resulted in secession of parts of Iran and conclusion of the imposed treaties called Golestan and Turkamanchi.
	www.iranian.ws /iran_news/publish/article_10821.shtml (1398 words)

	Rumblings in Azerbaijan -- Bush's Hawks Eye Northern Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iranian Azeris are the very essence of Iranian history and what Iran is today.
		The 1980's Iran war against Iraq, it was the Iranian Azeris who fought bravely and courageously alongside Iranian Arabs, the Kurds, the Baluchis and the Turkemans against the invaders.
		But what we all Iranians had in common was our nationalist pride and the love for our motherland.
	www.tribun.com /900/946.htm (1788 words)

	The roots of Unrest among the Iranian Minorities - Persian Journal Article Latest Iran news & Iranian newspaper articles
		The unrest among Iranian minorities, that form a considerable part of the Iranian population, is the result of:
		As far as Azerbaijan is concerned, two movements under the titles of Pan-Azeri and Pan-Turkish aims are active in the region.
		These groups are also tools of the two concerned countries (Azerbaijan Republic and Turkey) for checking the intervention of the Islamic regime in their affairs and possible plans for the export of the religious zealots under the pretext of preaching for the religious purposes.
	www.iranian.ws /iran_news/publish/article_15939.shtml (1105 words)

	Azerbaijan (1850436401) ATABAKI - I. B. Tauris
		This is a study of modern Iranian political history and is set in the international context of the Second World War and its aftermath.
		Unfortunately, not very well preserved due to the iranian politics that is geard towards discrimination and ingnorance of the ethnicity.
		Separation of Nothern Azerbaijan from Former USSR was only for the good of economical development of the country and preserving it's ethnicity.
	www.palgrave-usa.com /catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1850436401 (1274 words)

	PART II: PAN-TURANIAN CLAIMS TO AZERBAIJAN
		They are using the Turkish language as an instrument to differentiate Iranian Turcophones from the rest of Iran.
		This is very similar to what is happening today with the geopolitically sponsored movements such as the United Azerbaijan Movement who endeavour at creating separatism based on local (mainly economic) grievances and linguistic differences (item 5a).
		The local Iranian dialects, Azeri in particular, were gradually replaced by a Turkic language of the southwest family (Oghuzz).
	www.rozanehmagazine.com /NoveDec05/PARTIIAzar.html (3998 words)

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