Mahmoud Vaezi, Chief of Staff for President of Iran Hassan Rouhan. (MEHR) October 2, 2020 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's Chief of Staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, denied several reports on Wednesday, September 30, that Iran is assisting Armenia in its war with the neighboring Republic of Azerbaijan. Vaezi dismissed the reports as "baseless rumors" aimed [...]
Iranian security forces on the border with Azerbaijan, September 27, 2020. (Twitter) By Kaveh Afrasiabi September 30, 2020 After years of an inconclusive cease-fire punctured with occasional flare-ups, the Azerbaijan-Armenia stand-off over the disputed Nagorno Karabakh territory and its adjacent areas has in recent days turned into an inter-state military conflict with potentially [...]
Armenia - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Yerevan, October 1, 2019. (Supplied) By Brenda Shaffer September 12, 2020 When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, Iran’s stable northern boundary suddenly became a shared border with five states: land borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, and maritime borders [...]
In recent years entities associated with the Islamic Republic have been very active in the Republic of Azerbaijan, which is seen as a strategic location. (Supplied) By Ebrahim Ramezani August 11, 2020 In recent days a picture of the severed hand of General Ghasem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran’s expeditionary Quds Force who was killed [...]
IRGC members march during a parade in Tehran, on September 22, 2011. (Reuters) July 28, 2020 At the request of the Republic of Azerbaijan Russia handed over an individual accused of receiving “terrorist” training in Iran, TASS and Azerbaijani media reported July 28. Russian Federation Prosecutor General’s Office announced that Mehdi Shukurov, an [...]
An anti-aircraft gun position is seen at Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz in 2007. (AP) July 7, 2020 The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan on Monday denied allowing another country – presumably Israel or the United States – to use its airspace to carry out attacks on Iran. "Information about Russia's 'Container' radar [...]
Workers disinfect subway trains against coronavirus in Tehran, Iran, in the early morning of Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP) March 2, 2020 Azerbaijan said it had closed its border with Iran for two weeks to prevent the spread of coronavirus, after the death toll in Iran rose to 43, the highest number outside [...]
Leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan attend the signing ceremony of the 5th Caspian Summit. (AFP) By Simon Watkins January 4, 2020 Given the array of sweetener deals in the oil and gas sector promised to Russia by Iran in the past year or so – suspended until public outcry over [...]
A powerful explosion destroyed a seven story building housing,of the Jewish Mutual Association of Argentina, in Buenos Aires, on July 18, 1994. (Reuters) November 13, 2019 Argentina has asked Azerbaijan to arrest a high-level Iranian adviser to the country’s Supreme Leader in connection with the bombing in 1994 of the Buenos Aires AMIA [...]
Iranian Presdent Hassan Rouhani (R) with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. (IRNA) October 26, 2019 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, who visited Baku to participate in a meeting of “non-aligned” counties has said that Iran, Iraq and Azerbaijan as three “Shiite countries” are moving toward a “strategic relationship”. Speaking before his departure for Baku at [...]
