Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
· Declaration
A Soviet-backed autonomous government controlled Iranian Azerbaijan for just over a year before Iranian forces reasserted central control.
Significance here: The only period in which Southern Azerbaijani autonomy took concrete institutional form, and the central historical reference point for the modern movement.
· Election
An Azerbaijani rights advocate's parliamentary election win was annulled without explanation, prompting large protests.
Significance here: An early post-1979 flashpoint illustrating the Iranian state's treatment of Azerbaijani political representation, and the origin of Chehregani's subsequent activist career.
· Other
A government-run newspaper cartoon depicting an Azerbaijani-speaking cockroach triggered large protests across Iranian Azerbaijani cities.
Significance here: The largest and most widely reported episode of Iranian Azerbaijani popular unrest in the post-1979 period.
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