Iranian paratroopers parachuting during a military drill along the coast of the Gulf of Oman, Jan. 19, 2021. (AP) August 25, 2021 Russia’s defence ministry said on Tuesday it would hold naval drills in the Caspian Sea with small missile and artillery ships from Iran, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan in early September. Last week, [...]
Leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan attend the signing ceremony of the 5th Caspian Summit. (AFP) By Simon Watkins August 23, 2021 Iran last week revealed a huge new gas deposit located in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea. The ‘Chalous’ structure is to be developed with the intention of [...]
Rolling power cuts started in mid-May as the weather got warmer and the use of cooling systems increased. (AFP) June 14, 2021 Iran is set to increase electricity imports from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkmenistan to offset shortages that have led to blackouts in major cities, the spokesman of the electricity industry said Sunday. [...]
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 [...]
