"It was Jumah after the day when the Kizilbasi’s had invaded Tabriz. On the day of Jumah, Sah ismael had entered the Jami masjid. He ordered that between two sunnis there must be a kizilbashi standing with a sword in his hand. Then he announced that the Sunni madhab is batil and the sunnis were in shock when they heard this. After that he ordered that the ones who don’t curse Abu Bakr, Omar, Osman and Aisha, are to be hitted on the head. He rose on the minbar and said: “Distance yourselves from the sunnis” – “ Curse Abu Bakr, Omar, Osman”. After that the Kizilbashi men with swords yelled “more cursing, much more cursing!” The people (sunnis) rejected this and a fight begun. The Shah then yelled again with a loud voice:
“Whoever doesn’t say those words (i.e. cursing the Sahaba) will be killed”
Alam Arayi Safawi 64. یْفص یاسآ نلاع 64)
http://p30download.com/fa/entry/57126/
More about Tabriz:
[It was, however, nothing less than a reign of terror that inaugurated the new dispensation. On capturing Tabriz in 907/1501, a city two-thirds Sunnite in population, Shah Esmāʿil threatened with death all who might resist the adoption of Shiʿite prayer ritual in the main congregational mosque, and he had Qezelbāš soldiers patrol the congregation to ensure that none raise his voice against the cursing of the first three caliphs, viewed as enemies of the Prophet’s family. In Tabriz and elsewhere, gangs of professional execrators known as the tabarrāʾiān would accost the townsfolk at random, forcing them to curse the objectionable personages on pain of death.]
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ازآنجا كه مردم آذربايجان در آن زمان سني بودند، شيخ حيدر در اينسال به طور عملي جهاد با سني ها را آغاز نموده ضمن يك فتواي صريح اعلام داشت كه همة اهل سنت در حكم كفارند، و فقيهان سني دشمنان خدا به شمار ميروند و هركه از آنها تبعيت و تقليد كند از دين خارج شده به كافران ملحق ميشود و قتلش واجب ميگردد . او در اين فتوا اعلام كرد كه جهاد با اهل سنت يك واجب شرعي است و غارت اموال و اسير كردن و فروختن زنان و فرزندان آنها ثواب عظيم دارد . او عقائد شيخ بدرالدين را موبه مو اجرا كرد و همان عقيدة افراطي تاتارهاي بكتاشي آناتولي را كه علي ابن ابيطالب را تا مقام الوهي بالا برده ويرا مورد پرستش قرار ميدادند به صراحت تبليغ كرد؛ وكلية واجبات شرعي را از نماز و روزه وحج را تأويل كرده از گردن مريدانش انداخت . مريدان او كه از اينزمان بطوررسمي لقبِ قزلباش (به فارسي : سرخ سر) يافتند در دسته جات مسلح و منضبط جهادي متشكل شدند، و آباديهاي شروان و داغستان و مناطقي از قفقاز را كه عموما سني مذهب بودند، تحت عنوان جهاد با كافران مورد حملات غارتگرانه قرار دادند
(شاه اسمایل صفوی – گفتار دوم – منشا قزلباشان و عقاید آنها صفحه 43 – امیر حسین خنجی)
At that time the people of Azerbaijan were Sunni. Shaykh Haydar practically started the ‘Jihad’ against the Sunnis. IssuingFatwa he openly declared that all Ahl-Sonnat are Kufar and the Sunni Fuqaha are the enemies of Allah and whoever follows them leaves the fold of the religion and becomes one of the Kufar and his killing becomes obligatory. In the Fatwa he declared that ‘Jihad’ against Ahl-Sonnat is a religious obligation and the plunder of their properties and imprisoning and selling their women and children has a great reward.
He implemented the teachings and beliefs of Shaykh Badruddin bit by bit and propagated the extreme beliefs of Baktashi Anatolian Tatars who believed that Ali bin Abi Talib had a divine status and used to worship him. He interpreted the obligatory rules of prayer, Fast and Hajj. His diciples, who from this time, officially got the title of Qizilbash (red heads) formed disciplined armed ‘Jihadi’ factions. Under the title of ‘Jihad against the Kufar’ they would raid and plunder the settlements and villages of Sherwan, Dagestan and areas of Caucasus who were generally Sunni.
[Shah Ismail Safavi – Second Saying – The roots of Qizilbashan and their beliefs page 43 – Amir Hossein Khonjee.]]
https://islamistruth.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/crimes-of-safavids-in-azerbaijan-iran-and-khorasan/