Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization (ANRO) (AMDT) (
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
: تشکیلات مقاومت ملی آذربایجان) (
Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Milli Dirəniş Təşkilatı) was officially founded in 2006.
The group defines itself as a part and subset of general National Movement of
South Azerbaijan Historically, the name Azerbaijan was used to refer to the region located south of the Aras River- today known as Iranian Azerbaijan, located in northwestern Iran. The region in the north of the Aras River, which is today called the Republic of Azer ...
and advocates separatism for the
Iranian Azerbaijanis as a result of their
Pan-Turkist
Pan-Turkism is a political movement that emerged during the 1880s among Turkic intellectuals who lived in the Russian region of Kazan (Tatarstan), Caucasus (modern-day Azerbaijan) and the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey), with its aim bei ...
ideology.
Advocacy
ANRO seeks to regain withheld economical, political, social, cultural and human rights and fundamental liberties of Azeri people in
Iranian Azerbaijan.
ANRO aims to act within the
democratic and civil struggle methods and values.
The group avoids and condemns all kinds of violence, especially those from governments and organized armed terrorists.
In the ANRO's opinion, the struggle for self-determination is a legitimate and necessary right of the Turkic people in
Iranian Azerbaijan.
The ANRO's news outlet i
ArazNews and Babek Chalabiyanli is the group's official spokesman.
The ceremony for the tenth anniversary of the Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization was held with the presence of ANRO authorities, members, supporters and guests from other organizations in South Azerbaijan on 22 March 2016.
See also
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Azerbaijan People's Government
The Azerbaijan People's Government ( az, آذربایجان میللی حکومتی - Azərbaycan Milli Hökuməti; fa, حکومت خودمختار آذربایجان) was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state in northern Iran from Nov ...
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...
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Azerbaijani language
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Azerbaijani people
References
External links
Araz NewsDıranısh
{{Iranian exiled parties
Azerbaijani nationalism
Banned political parties in Iran
Independence movements
Azerbaijan (Iran)
Political parties of minorities in Iran
Banned secessionist parties
Pan-Turkist organizations