Ethnic Azeri, Armenian students clash in Tehran – Baku report

ANS Radio, Baku
26 Apr 05

Ethnic Azerbaijani and Armenian students have clashed in Tehran. The
clash took place when Azerbaijani students were protesting at the
genocide of the Turks, and Armenian students were holding a rally to
protest the concocted genocide of the Armenians.

The secretary of the international relations department of the World
Azerbaijani Congress, Ahmad Obali, said that Armenian protesters beat
some of the Azerbaijani students in the incident. However, the police
detained several Azerbaijani students instead of stopping the brawl
and did not intervene in the protest of the Armenians. Obali said that
several people were injured in the protest action staged by about 400
ethnic Azerbaijani students.

Ethnic Azerbaijani students in Tehran have many times appealed to the
relevant authorities over holding a protest action but have not
received a positive answer.

The spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Baku, Lutfali Azimzada, has
told ANS that the embassy does not have any official information on
the clashes in Tehran.