Khosrow I's second Roman campaign Azarethes (Greek: Ἀζαρέθης), also recorded as Exarath (Ἑξαράθ) and Zuraq, was a Sassanid Persian military commander during the Byzantine–Sassanid Wars.
Procopius calls him an "exceptionally able warrior", and Zacharias of Mytilene records that he held the rank of astabadh.
In 531, together with his Lakhmid allies, he led an invasion across the Euphrates into the Byzantine region of Commagene (more probably Chalybonitis).
[2] When the Byzantine army under Belisarius approached, they withdrew east, halting at Callinicum.
He only reappears in the sources once, in 544, when he accompanied Kavadh's successor, Khosrau I (r. 531–579), at the siege of Edessa (544).