Ethnic Azeris In Iran Protest Slur On TV
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Amateur video provided to RFE/RL's Radio Farda shows a mass protest in the Iranian city of Tabriz on November 9. Ethnic Azeris in Iran's East Azerbaijan Province took to the streets after an Iranian children’s television program broadcast what locals said was an ethnic slur against them. Protests were also held in other Iranian cities with large ethnic Azeri populations.