@atatwolfKind of weird you are half Azeri from Azerbaijan and half Azeri from Iran and you don't speak a word of Azeri Turkish. Do you speak Farsi?
Actually I can understand Azeri a little bit, and just a few words, but I can't speak in Azeri.
BTW, My Persian is fluent.
Anyway, half of Iranian Azeris are living in Tehran and many of their children cannot speak in Azeri.
The fact is every thing is persian language oriented and you need to learn farsi and be fluent in it in order to be successful in university and finding job. That's why many azeri parents do not insist one teaching azeri to their children.
I am not sure that how much you are familiar with Iranian part of azerbaijan, but actually even in Qazvin and Saveh, almost they don't speak azeri anymore, and in zanjan they speak azeri with an accent which in my opinion is more close to persian than azeri. It's not good, but that is what really is happening.