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The Yellow Dogs were an Iranian-American rock band, formed in 2006. [1] The band was formed in Tehran, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. [2]Two of the band's founding members were brothers, Soroush (guitarist) and Arash (drummer) Farazmand; they were shot dead in Brooklyn on November 11, 2013, along with an associate Ali Eskandarian. [3]
The following is a list of massacres of Azerbaijanis [a] that have occurred throughout history. During pre-Soviet times, the term "Caucasian Tatar" was used for the group who is nowadays called "Azerbaijanis." For instance, this is apparent in the designation Armenian–Tatar massacres. However, these terms are today and in this article interchangeable. Name Date Location Perpetrators Victims ...
Mansour Jafari Mamaghani (Persian: منصور جعفری مَمَقانی, born 28 July 1971), better known as Mansour, is an Iranian Azerbaijani musical artist specializing in Iranian traditional music based in Southern California.
Nika Shakarami was born on 2 October 2005 [4] in Khorramabad, Lorestan province, to a Lur family. [5] [6] Little is publicly known of her background. [7]She had family ties to Khorramabad in southwestern Iran, [7] the city having been her father's hometown. [4]
Iran is responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, laws ...
Azerbaijanis comprise the largest minority ethnic group in Iran. Apart from Iranian Azerbaijan (provinces of West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil and Zanjan), Azerbaijani populations are found in large numbers in four other provinces: Hamadan (includes other Turkic ethnic groups such as Afshar, Gharehgozloo, Shahsevan, and Baharloo [27] [28]), [29] Qazvin, [30] Markazi, [31] and Kurdistan.
A New York man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly hiring someone to kill his estranged husband, a wealthy art dealer, who was found brutally stabbed in Brazil last year. Daniel Sikkema, 54, was ...
Iran is moving to head off a possible repeat of unrest ahead of the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, arresting women’s rights activists and family members of people killed during ...