Iranian Azeri soccer protests raise spectre of Turkish-Iranian-Syrian proxy war
Nationalist fans demand unification with post-Soviet Azerbaijan
By James M. Dorsey
Nationalist and environmental soccer protests in recent months in the Bagh Shomal and Yadegar-e-Emam stadiums in Tabriz, the capital of the Iranian province of Eastern Azerbaijan, have raised the spectre of ethnic strife in the Islamic republic and a Turkish-Syrian-Iranian …
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