11 Facts About Iranian Azerbaijanis

Iranian Azerbaijanis constitute a significant minority in Tehran, Karaj and other regions.

Iranian Azerbaijanis have immigrated and resettled in large numbers in Central Iran, mainly Tehran, Qom and Karaj.

Comparative study on the complete mitochondrial DNA diversity in Iranians has indicated that Iranian Azerbaijanis are more related to the people of Georgia, than they are to other Iranians, as well as to Armenians.

Therefore, It is noteworthy that, contrary to what one might expect, many of the leading agents of the construction of an Iranian bounded territorial entity came from non-Persian-speaking ethnic minorities, and the foremost were the Azerbaijanis, rather than the nation's titular ethnic group, the Persians.

Iranian Azerbaijanis often worked menial jobs, including on dyer's madder plantations in Guba where 9,000 out of 14,000 Iranian Azerbaijani contract workers were employed as of 1867.

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Some naturalized Iranian Azerbaijanis were later accused of various anti-Soviet activities and arrested or even executed in the so-called "Iranian operation" of 1938.

In October 2020, several protests erupted in Iranian Azerbaijanis cities, including the capital Tehran and Tabriz, in support of Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Generally, Iranian Azerbaijanis were regarded as "a well integrated linguistic minority" by academics prior to Iran's Islamic Revolution.

Iranian Azerbaijanis are in high positions of authority with the Azerbaijanis Ayatollah Ali Khamenei currently sitting as the Supreme Leader.

In metropolitan cities with mixed ethnic composition, such as Tehran, Iranian Azerbaijanis are thought to be more intense in their expression of religious ritual than their Persian counterparts.

However, what is often neglected is that Iranian Azerbaijanis nationalism has its roots in the political upheavals of the 19th century and the disintegration immediately following the Constitutional revolution of 1905– 9.