A Turkish army tank moves, in Silopi, near the Habur border gate with Iraq, south-eastern Turkey, Sept. 29, 2017. (AP) October 4, 2021 Turkey will hold joint military drills with Azerbaijan this week in a region bordering Iran after Baku’s government criticized Tehran for staging army exercises near its border. “The Steadfast Brotherhood-2021 [...]
Iranian military commanders stand at the border with Azerbaijan during the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region last year. (Iranian TV) By Golnaz Esfandiari October 2, 2021 Tensions have increased recently between Tehran and Baku over three issues: a joint military drill that Azerbaijani troops conducted alongside their Turkish and [...]
Members of the Iranian Army take part in a military exercise in the northwestern parts of Iran, in this picture obtained on Oct. 1, 2021. (Reuters) By Luke Coffey October 2, 2021 The one-year anniversary of the start of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war between Azerbaijan and Armenia passed this week. By early November [...]
A view shows the ancient Khodaafarin Bridge near Azerbaijan's border with Iran in the area. (Reuters) September 30, 2021 Iran will hold a military exercise on Friday near the border with Azerbaijan, the Iranian army announced on Thursday, amid tensions between the two countries over drills. The exercise will be held “with the [...]
Saeed Khatibzadeh, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman. (IRNA) September 29, 2021 Tehran on Tuesday invoked its “sovereignty” to dismiss Azerbaijan’s concerns over Iranian military exercises near their shared border. “The drills carried out by our country in the northwest border areas... are a question of sovereignty,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in [...]
Turkish and Azerbaijani armed forces conducted a joint military drill in Azerbaijan, July 3, 2021. (IHA) September 29, 2021 Iran's flagship principlist newspaper Kayhan in a commentary Tuesday detected a plot against Iran and Russia that it said was hatched by the United States and Israel with the cooperation of President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, [...]
Azeri President Ilham Heydar Oglu Aliyev. (Getty) September 29, 2021 Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said he is “very surprised” by Iran’s decision to hold military drills close to their border amid tension between the two neighbours over a key transport route. “Why now and why near our borders?” Mr Aliyev said in an [...]
Iranian security forces on the border with Azerbaijan, September 27, 2020. (Twitter) September 25, 2021 Fada Hossein Maleki, an Iranian lawmaker and a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has warned the neighboring Republic of Azerbaijan for obstructing transit of goods between Iran and Armenia and objected to [...]
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 [...]
