YEREVAN. – Iranian Azeris consider themselves Iranians, Majles member Karen Khanlarian said.

“Pan-Turkic trends have not been supported in Iran for at least recent one hundred years,” he said during the Wednesday press conference in Yerevan.

He found it difficult to speak about ethnic relations between the Iranian Azeris and modern residents of Azerbaijan and Turkey. The MP stressed that residents of West and East Azerbaijan provinces perceive themselves residents of Iran, just as citizens of other provinces.

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