Genocide of Azerbaijani people in Iran

The Azerbaijani Genocide in Iran refers to the mass murder of Azerbaijani people of Iran in different periods.Azerbaijani people were exposed to both cultural and physical genocide in Iran.
Role of Pahlavi dynasty
In summer of 1950,Mostofi governor of Azerbaijan, forcibly and without any attention to the needs of region's people and thinking about food supply of cities bought cereal of Azerbaijan with low price and carried them toTehran.In winter, the city of Tabriz and other cities plagued by hunger and remained without food.Inevitably,they brought Gorgan's rotten grain,the wholly owned to private property of Reza Khan, to Tabriz and other cities and sold to poor people with high price.Because bread of these wheat was rotten and inedible and at the same time expensive and scarce,thousands of destitute people became sick or died from hunger".
Cultural genocide
In period of Pahlavi dynasty, Mohseni culture chief of Azerbaijan province, had put penalty box for speaking Azerbaijani language.
Mohammad-Ali Foroughi, prime minister of Iran in Pahlavi period, performed intentional and grudging persinization and assimilation of Azerbaijani people of Iran: "Iran's neighborhood with Turkey, Caucasia and Turkmenistan in North and North western regions, which their inhabitants are entirely Turks,is dangerous... Best thing for unifying Iran is to spread Persian education.But this Persinization must not be tangible for them(Azerbaijani people)".
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