A general view of Azerbaijan's capital Baku. (Getty) February 16, 2021 Azerbaijan on Monday threw out a journalist’s appeal after he was jailed on charges of high treason, which he and rights groups have denied as politically motivated. Polad Aslanov – editor of news websites xeberman.com and press.az, known for harsh criticism of [...]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (AP) December 12, 2020 Turkey on Saturday summoned the Iranian ambassador to Ankara over Iran’s “aggressive” reaction to the Turkish president’s recitation of a poem on a visit to Azerbaijan, which Tehran deemed to support a secession of Azeri ethnic parts of Iran. The diplomatic spat between neighbors [...]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (AFP) December 11, 2020 Iran on Friday summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Tehran over the Turkish president’s remarks during a visit to Baku, Azerbaijan, which Iran deemed offensive and said support a secession of Azeri ethnic parts of Iran. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Turkish Ambassador Derya [...]
Armenia - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Yerevan, October 1, 2019. (Supplied) By Dnyanesh Kamat November 25, 2020 The terms of the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict agreed between Armenia and Azerbaijan represent a grave threat to Iran’s long-term strategic interests. The effects of this are likely to [...]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) attends a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Jan 17, 2017. (REUTERS) November 24, 2020 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the situations in Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The two men also [...]
Azerbaijan is one of the predominately Shiite areas in the Muslim world that Iran has not been able to place under its influence. (IRIB) By Luke Coffey November 14, 2020 An almost three-decades-old conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh was brought to an end this week after 45 days of hard fighting. The [...]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP) November 3, 2020 All Azerbaijani territories under Armenian control must be “liberated and returned to Azerbaijan,” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday. “This military conflict must end as soon as possible ... of course, all the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia must be liberated [...]
Protest rallies held in several cities in Iran to show support for Azerbaijan as the clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh continue, Oct 1, 2020. (Supplied) By Brenda Shaffer October 22, 2020 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will host the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia for apparently separate meetings in Washington this Friday to discuss the ongoing fighting [...]
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (left) meets with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran in November 2017. (Getty) By Emil Filtenborg and Stefan Weichert October 17, 2020 A war has broken out in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave between Armenia and Azerbaijan, claiming hundreds of lives near the Iranian border. The enclave is officially part [...]
A number of artillery shells and rockets have reportedly landed in Iranian territory since the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted in September 2020. (Reuters) October 16, 2020 Iran issued a new warning to Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday after stray fire from their conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region wounded one person on the Iranian side [...]
