They Have Their Own Autonomous

And at that time, Tabriz and the Azerbaijani region was in the hands of his supporters. And at that time, we opposed it and the son of Khomeini gave an ultimatum to Ayatollah Shariat Madari, lay down your weapons or we're going to bomb Tabriz. So that thing that you're saying, Vladimir, about Azerbaijanis is not true.

Back to our situation in Iran. So, Azerbaijanis in Iran want federalists, want their own regional parliament, they want their own government in their own region. They are opposing the dictatorship, whether by Mullahs or by Shah-e-Lagazal.

They don't like the Pahlavis because in 1946, Iran's army attacked the Azerbaijani region and they killed 25,000 people. They genocided us. So that's all in our background of the mind.

So Pahlavi was always rejected by Azerbaijani people in Iran. At the same time, Mullah Mohammad from the Kurdish side also. At that time, the republic, most of the Azerbaijani cities were under control of the Azerbaijanis.

I mean, we know the one this morning that was shot down by NATO, and now this one appears to actually be something that transpired, so I just wanted to throw that out there real quick. Yeah, I saw that one as well. Turkey is worried about the Kurds having a state, at least they have their own autonomous region inside Iran, and because of that it wants to suppress all the ethnic movements inside Iran.