Protests against Armenians in Tabriz

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

On Monday, Feb. 27th the regimes agents and rent-a-mob in Tabriz gathered for a violent demonstration in front of a local Armenian church, chanting anti-Armenian and anti-Christian slogans.

AFTAB, the regime-run site wrote: "This demonstration took place on the anniversary of Armenians killing people from the Khojalou'yeh Gharabogh of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The demonstrators chanted slogans such as 'We want the destruction of Armenia' as well as 'Death or Republic of Azerbaijan'. The thousand person strong demonstration of the citizens of Tabriz in support of the Republic of Azerbaijan is unprecedented and may have a negative effect on relations between Tehran and Armenia."

Last week, during Friday prayers in Tehran, Mullah Kashani preached attacks on Christians and their churches. The regime has now begun to foment conflict between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq and southern Iran while instigating the very same in the north between Iranian Turks and Iranian Armenians, in both cases inflaming long-standing grievances and ethnic unrest.