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To: nuconvert

Could you give more details on exactly what the protest is about? Why does the site say a protest against anti-chauvinist article?


4 posted on 06/01/2006 5:18:27 AM PDT by WashingtonSource (Freedom is not free.)
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To: WashingtonSource

The source seems to indicate that Tabriz is in Azerbaijan, not Iran. A Google search confirmed this.


7 posted on 06/01/2006 5:23:32 AM PDT by keats5
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To: WashingtonSource

This protest began before this march, in response to a cartoon in a newspaper that the Azeris took offense to. (there was a character in the cartoon who was depicted as a cockroach that spoke the azeri language/dialect and the Azeriss' didn't appreciate being depicted as a cockroach)

The title of this video is misleading, as this demonstration march is against the regime. Not just the cartoon. The cartoon was a catlyst for a bigger protest against the regime.


9 posted on 06/01/2006 5:30:36 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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