The Fitilieh programme protests () started on 9 November 2015 after a segment of the children's television programme ''Fitileh'', aired on 6 November on local state TV, depicted an Azeri speaking Iranian brushing his teeth with a toilet brush. As a result, hundreds of people participated in demonstrations in

Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quru River valley in Iran's historic Azerbaijan region between long ridges of vo ...

Urmia Urmia or Orumiyeh ( fa, ارومیه, Variously transliterated as ''Oroumieh'', ''Oroumiyeh'', ''Orūmīyeh'' and ''Urūmiyeh''.) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran and the capital of Urmia County. It is situated at an a ...

Ardabil Ardabil (, fa, اردبیل, Ardabīl or ''Ardebīl'') is a city in northwestern Iran, and the capital of Ardabil Province. As of the 2022 census, Ardabil's population was 588,000. The dominant majority in the city are ethnic Iranian Azerbai ...

Zanjan Zanjan may refer to: * Zanjan Province, Iran * Zanjan County, an area within Zanjan Province * Zanjan, Iran, the capital of Zanjan County and Zanjan Province * University of Zanjan, in the city of Zanjan * Zanjan Airport, an airport serving Zanj ...

and

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...

. Police in Iran clashed with protesting people and fired tear gas to disperse crowds, with protesters being arrested. One of the protesters, Ali Akbar Morteza, reportedly "died of injuries" in Urmia.Civil protests erupt in Iranian Azerbaijan
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. — 2015. — 10 November. There were also protests held in front of Iranian embassies in

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and Baku. The head of the country’s state broadcaster

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB; fa, صدا و سيمای جمهوری اسلامی ايران, ''Sedā va Sīmā-ye Jomhūri-ye Eslāmi-ye Īrān'', , formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until the Iranian re ...

(IRIB)

Mohammad Sarafraz Mohammad Sarafraz ( fa, محمد سرافراز) is an Iranian media executive who was head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) from 2014 until his resignation in 2016. He was the 6th Director-General of the IRIB and succeeded Ezatoll ...

apologized for airing the program. The broadcast of ''Fitilehha'' was cancelled, after 12 years of airing.Frud Bezhan
Azeris Hold Protests In Iran Over Racial Slur
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Azeris Hold Protests In Iran Over Racial Slur
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Iran’s ethnic Azeris protest slur on TV program
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Iran's Azeris protest over offensive TV show
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BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...

. — 2015. — 9 November. {{Anti-Azerbaijanism Mass media in Iran 2015 controversies Anti-Azerbaijanism in Iran 2015 in Iran Protests in Iran 2015 protests November 2015 events in Iran

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