Iranian Presdent Hassan Rouhani (R) meets Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. (IRNA) February 20, 2018 Over the past few months, Iran has been attempting to improve ties with Azerbaijan and there have been some modest improvements in economic ties. This will likely cause concern for Turkey and the US, who are both enemies of Iran and [...]
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (left) meets with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran in November 2017. Baku is growing increasingly concerned about what it sees as growing Iranian manipulation of Azerbaijan’s Shia Muslim believers. (Getty) By Huda al-Husseini January 29, 2018 Azerbaijan’s government and many intellectual Iraqis feel deeply worried by what [...]
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (left) meets with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran in November 2017. (Getty) By Zaur Shiriyev December 29, 2017 Azerbaijan’s government is growing increasingly concerned about what it sees as growing Iranian manipulation of the country’s Shia Muslim believers. Azerbaijan’s security services recently presented senior government officials with [...]
Apr 9, 2017 “There is no historical evidence on a state called ‘Azerbaijan’ in the north of Araks,” Foreign high-ranking military of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Mansour Haghighatpour said according to the report of Iranian news agency Azariha.org. As the Iranian source notes, Mansour Haghighatpour, turning to the expediency of recognizing the [...]
Apr 2, 2017 In Azerbaijan, an Iranian citizen, who was involved in the illegal drug trafficking, was detained. As a result of the operational measures taken by the Bilasuvar law enforcement officers, 5 kilograms and 75 grams of opium were confiscated from the Masally resident, previously convicted Vusal Mammadov, and Iranian citizen Nasirpanah Ala Altefat, the [...]
The Trump Tower Baku never opened. Trump partnered with an Azerbaijani family that U.S. officials called notoriously unethical.The New Yorker Mar 31, 2017 Three Democratic U.S. senators are calling for a federal investigation into allegations that President Donald Trump did business with an Azerbaijani family alleged to have busted Iran sanctions. The letter [...]
Mar 30, 2017 President Hassan Rouhani said his country in collaboration with Azerbaijan will launch the construction of Rasht-Astara railway in northern Iran soon. He made the remarks upon arrival in the Rasht airport, as part of his provincial visit. Describing the issue of the construction of Rasht-Astara railway as "significant", President Rouhani added that [...]
The Trump Tower Baku never opened. Trump partnered with an Azerbaijani family that U.S. officials called notoriously unethical.The New Yorker Mar 6, 2017 Donald Trump has regularly spoken out against Iran’s regime—but that hasn’t stopped him from helping it get rich. A lengthy piece in the New Yorker reports that the Trump Organization [...]
Mar 1, 2017 Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi announced that a railroad connecting Iran’s northern city of Astara to Azerbaijan Republic’s Astara is planned to come into operation in coming months. Various efforts have been made in the current Iranian administration to facilitate and improve the activities of the two countries’ [...]
January 22, 2017 Recently National Parliament of Azerbaijan threatened to divide Iran into 5 countries, and Oktay Assadof, the speaker of the parliament, approved and emphasized it. Ghodrat Hassangholiev threatened that if Iran attacks Azerbaijan, Iran itself will be divided into 5 countries. Some believe that this should be ignored, in order not to damage [...]
