The Iranian regime has made our people suffer heavy losses by carrying out a policy of discrimination against our people in various directions.
Systematic and planned drying of Lake Urmu as ecocide is a part of the deliberate policy carried out by the occupying Iranian administration regime in our region and in our motherland in the direction of eliminating our national identity and existence.
So, just as they have taken the path of destroying our language, identity, history, and cultural values with their discriminatory policy against our nation for hundreds of years, today they have planned to destroy the simple life of our people by artificially worsening the ecological situation in our regions.
It is now clearly obvious that this desire of the Iranian regime has led to large-scale environmental disasters in the Urmu region and our surrounding areas by deliberately draining the 13,000-year-old Lake Urmu.
Based on the plans of the Iranian regime, artificial dams that were built years ago on dozens of rivers flowing into Lake Urmu, blocking the flow, and collecting water in those dams laid the foundation for the ecological tragedy in Urmu and the surrounding regions.
It is known to everyone that although the water-feeding Lake Urmu was stopped many years ago, the disasters caused by lack of water are now becoming more obvious for the people of the region. So, it is becoming more and more difficult to live in Urmu and the surrounding areas for ordinary people whose livelihood is directly dependent on agriculture.
As a result of the drying out of Lake Urmu, tons of salt accumulated here are spreading to the surrounding areas, causing the destruction of agricultural land and salinization of the land.
Thus, as a result of the drying out of Lake Urmu, the calamity created here opens the way for the salt storm to affect our surrounding areas as well.
As a result of this deliberate depletion of life in Urmu and the surrounding regions, the living conditions of the 15 million Azerbaijanis there have become even more difficult. This step-by-step planned ecocide which will force 15 million Azerbaijani Turks to leave their motherland, also serves the Iranian regime’s ethnic engineering plan in Azerbaijan.
Due to the Lake Urmu disaster, hundreds of Azerbaijani villages were evacuated in recent years and Azerbaijanis were forced to emigrate. In the last 5 years, due to salt storms, the incidence of skin cancer has increased by 20% in West Azerbaijan.
Dear honourable countrymen,
Our most important responsibility as countrymen is to defend our homeland from illegal occupiers, and also protect and stop these attacks against our nation in the Urmu region. Therefore, we as a nation should be always on our feet, by showing our resistance against the regime, we should force them to restore the natural resources of our Urmu. The way to achieve this is by going to the streets and alleys calling all our regions and our nation to support Urmu.
South Azerbaijan Republic Party also called on all Azerbaijani to defend their freedom and Human rights.
Brave Ladies and Gentlemen of Azerbaijan,
Iranian mullah regime and its rotten statehood are already breathing their last breath, isolated from the world. In addition, we have more organized and national strength compared to previous years. Let’s be sure that if we stand hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder, we can spread the right voice of our nation to the world and deal heavy blows to occupier Iranian regime forces.
We always call on our Azerbaijani brave and heroic countrymen to show their support for Lake Urmu.
Every hour is the hour of action, everywhere is the place of action against the Iranian inhuman and apartheid regime.
ACP Board of Committees