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ANTI-IRANIAN PROTEST HELD IN AZERI CAPITAL
APA
May 11 2012
Azerbaijan
[translated from Azeri]
Baku, 11 May: A group of young people picketed the Iranian embassy in
Azerbaijan today. The protesters chanted slogans "Azerbaijan!", "Iran,
don't hold wicked Armenians in your arms!", "Long live Azerbaijan,
shame on Iran!", "There is no place for homosexual Iranian mullahs
in Azerbaijan!", "Susa [Shusha, in breakaway Nagornyy Karabakh]
was sold to Armenians by the Iranian government!".
Representative of the Board of Muslims of the Caucasus in the western
region [of Azerbaijan], Haci Tahir Qarabagi, said that this kind of
attitude of Iran towards Azerbaijan is against Islam.
A statement was read out at the end of the protest. The statement
pointed out Iran's biased position towards Azerbaijan, its friendly
ties with Armenia, and the cultural genocide against 30 million Azeris
living in Iran.
"The Iranian government turns a blind eye to Azerbaijan's
achievements. President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmud
Ahmadinezhad never mentions the genocide committed by Armenians against
Azerbaijanis in Karabakh. However, he lays a wreath in front of the
so-called Armenian genocide memorial. We, Azeri youth, will not allow
an Iranian provocation in our country."
This protest comes in response to the picket staged outside the
Azerbaijani consulate in Tabriz [in Iran] on 8 May.
APA
May 11 2012
Azerbaijan
[translated from Azeri]
Baku, 11 May: A group of young people picketed the Iranian embassy in
Azerbaijan today. The protesters chanted slogans "Azerbaijan!", "Iran,
don't hold wicked Armenians in your arms!", "Long live Azerbaijan,
shame on Iran!", "There is no place for homosexual Iranian mullahs
in Azerbaijan!", "Susa [Shusha, in breakaway Nagornyy Karabakh]
was sold to Armenians by the Iranian government!".
Representative of the Board of Muslims of the Caucasus in the western
region [of Azerbaijan], Haci Tahir Qarabagi, said that this kind of
attitude of Iran towards Azerbaijan is against Islam.
A statement was read out at the end of the protest. The statement
pointed out Iran's biased position towards Azerbaijan, its friendly
ties with Armenia, and the cultural genocide against 30 million Azeris
living in Iran.
"The Iranian government turns a blind eye to Azerbaijan's
achievements. President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmud
Ahmadinezhad never mentions the genocide committed by Armenians against
Azerbaijanis in Karabakh. However, he lays a wreath in front of the
so-called Armenian genocide memorial. We, Azeri youth, will not allow
an Iranian provocation in our country."
This protest comes in response to the picket staged outside the
Azerbaijani consulate in Tabriz [in Iran] on 8 May.