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Sabina Mammadli read more Stakes are high in the region as tensions between Azerbaijan and
Iran are getting hotter as time passes.
Despite the relations between the two countries have always been
rocky but it never ended with break-off, following the
anti-Azerbaijani remarks of Iranian officials, the conduction of
drills on the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, the terror attack on the
Azerbaijani embassy in Iran.
Hence for Tehran supporting Baku remains on paper in its lasting
conflict with Armenia, while it shows up itself a known Yerevan
ally and doesn't abstain from demonstrating it.
During the 44 days Patriotic War, Iran bestowed significant
material aid to Armenia and has repeatedly called against what it
calls“changing borders in the Caucasus'', which it referred to as
its“red line”. In the guise of care for Armenian borders, Iran
simply cares about itself, as the new realities emerging after
Azerbaijan's victory demonstrated the country from a never seen
before side of a winner, which can't but intimate the neighboring
Tehran.
As a follow-up of Iran's frequenting anti-Azerbaijani
statements, the sending of a note verbale by Iranian Embassy in
Baku to Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry calling to take“appropriate
measures to prevent anti-Iranian broadcasts and articles in the
Azerbaijani media” is nothing but an attempt to twist the
perspectives in the region. In turn, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry
summoned Iranian Ambassador Seyyed Abbas Mousavi to the ministry
and informed him about the insulting, false, defamatory and biased
information about Azerbaijan spread in the Iranian media.
In a comment to Azernews , political analyst,
head of Central Asia and the Middle East think tank Sadraddin
Soltan talked about the continuous tensions, noting that the
diplomatic crisis has spiraled after the terror attack on the
Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran on January 27.
According to Soltan, the situation between the two countries
keeps aggravating and the chances of them calming down are small.
However, he also added that after a meeting between Iranian and
Russian foreign ministers, the latter concluded that the tensions
between Azerbaijan and Iran are temporary and believed that they
will be solved soon. Hence, the pundit stressed that there could be
a possibility that the tensions could resolve with the help of
Turkiye and Russia. However, he added that all of Iran's recent
acts indicate that the country chooses to further aggravate the
ties with Azerbaijan.
Talking about the picket held by Iran's terrorist Huseyniyun
organization in front of the Azerbaijani Consulate General in
Tabriz, the think tank head noted that such provocation is an
indication that Iran wants to pressure Azerbaijan's diplomatic
office.
“Iran is deliberately trying to exacerbate the bilateral
diplomatic ties with an attempt to shut down the Azerbaijani
Consulate General in Tabriz as it believes that the consulate works
for Israel,” Soltan remarked.
According to him, Iran is not using its people in these
provocations but instead is doing so with the Huseyniyun
organization, which consists of what pose as Azerbaijanis working
or studying in Iran.
Regarding the question of whether the provocation in front of
the consulate office could be considered terrorism, Soltanov
remarked that the majority of organizations created by the Iranian
government are involved in terrorism.
“For example, Hezbollah in Lebanon was created and funded by
Iran and is recognized as a terroristic organization in many
countries. Palestine's Islamic Jihad organization was founded in
the 1970s and funded by Iran is also considered terroristic. Iran's
IRGC (SEPAH) is also considered to be a terroristic organization,”
he emphasized.
The analyst concluded that a part of the policy conducted by the
Huseyniyun organization could potentially be involved in terrorism
as they also have access to arms. Thus, the perspectives of this
organization created by the Iranian regime could never be
civil.
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Sabina Mammadli is AzerNews' staff journalist, follow her on
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