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Baki Xabar, Azerbaijan
March 8 2012
Iran gives Armenia nuclear technology, arms
Iran and Armenia have had military cooperation for years and Yerevan
might have transferred to Iran nuclear technology, the privately-owned
Azerbaijani newspaper Baki Xabar reported on 7 March.
Despite its attempts the USA is unable to monitor the Iran-Armenia
border and considering the bilateral military cooperation between the
two countries there might have been a transfer of nuclear technologies
to Tehran, the newspaper said.
"Apart from Israel and Iran, Armenia is the only country from the
Caucasus to South Africa to possess nuclear technology. It has had
nuclear technology and a nuclear power station for longer than Iran.
It is interesting that while US officials say in their speeches that
nuclear technology was smuggled to Iran from North Korea and Pakistan,
there is no word about Armenia. Everyone knows that for the past 20
years various goods, including unknown products, were smuggled to and
from on the Iran-Armenia border. Given these illegal trade links,
there is no guarantee that there has not been a transfer of military
nuclear equipment from Yerevan to Tehran," the report said.
On the bilateral military cooperation, Baki Xabar said that the USA
has been unsuccessfully trying to monitor the situation on the border.
"The deepening of Iran-Armenia cooperation is not in the interests of
the West, and in secret letters to the Armenian authorities the USA
has repeatedly voiced its concern over this. WikiLeaks has also
published information in this regard. Americans wanted to be able to
monitor the Iran-Armenia border, but Yerevan did not permit this."
According to the newspaper, in preparation for a possible war, Iran is
looking for strategic allies, and of its neighbouring countries only
Armenia fits the bill. "It is known that faced with serious economic
sanctions Iran imports banned goods from the Megri corridor [on
Iran-Armenia border] and from the occupied Azerbaijani territories...
There are serious reports saying that recently the bilateral military
cooperation deepened," Baki Xabar reported.
Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani Dunya news agency website, dia.az, carried
three reports on 6 March concerning Iran's policy vis-a-vis
Azerbaijan.
According to the website, in response to an Azerbaijan-Israeli arms
deal worth 1.6bn dollars, Iran is preparing to give Armenia weapons
and munitions worth 300m dollars. "Negotiations to this end are
already under way between Yerevan and the Persian-mullah regime of
Iran," the report said, quoting anonymous sources.
The website also said that many members of Iran's diplomatic missions
in Azerbaijan may be spies. There are 97 people in Iran's diplomatic
mission in Baku. Add to this the staff of the consulate in Naxcivan
and this figure reaches 110. But only 22 of them have diplomatic
status, it said.
Dia.az also quoted the Iranian website arannews.ir as linking the
recent arrests of Muslim believers in Azerbaijan and unrest in
Azerbaijan's Quba District. "Following the Islamophobia policies of
the Baku government in the past two years we have witnessed the
formation of the Islamic movement in the Azerbaijani Republic. Despite
the arrests of many believers, the Islamic movement has entered into a
new stage. For example, we saw unprecedented protests against the
state apparatus in Quba, the town where the currently imprisoned
chairman of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan was born," dia.az quoted
arannews.ir as reporting.
[translated from Azeri]
From: A. Papazian
March 8 2012
Iran gives Armenia nuclear technology, arms
Iran and Armenia have had military cooperation for years and Yerevan
might have transferred to Iran nuclear technology, the privately-owned
Azerbaijani newspaper Baki Xabar reported on 7 March.
Despite its attempts the USA is unable to monitor the Iran-Armenia
border and considering the bilateral military cooperation between the
two countries there might have been a transfer of nuclear technologies
to Tehran, the newspaper said.
"Apart from Israel and Iran, Armenia is the only country from the
Caucasus to South Africa to possess nuclear technology. It has had
nuclear technology and a nuclear power station for longer than Iran.
It is interesting that while US officials say in their speeches that
nuclear technology was smuggled to Iran from North Korea and Pakistan,
there is no word about Armenia. Everyone knows that for the past 20
years various goods, including unknown products, were smuggled to and
from on the Iran-Armenia border. Given these illegal trade links,
there is no guarantee that there has not been a transfer of military
nuclear equipment from Yerevan to Tehran," the report said.
On the bilateral military cooperation, Baki Xabar said that the USA
has been unsuccessfully trying to monitor the situation on the border.
"The deepening of Iran-Armenia cooperation is not in the interests of
the West, and in secret letters to the Armenian authorities the USA
has repeatedly voiced its concern over this. WikiLeaks has also
published information in this regard. Americans wanted to be able to
monitor the Iran-Armenia border, but Yerevan did not permit this."
According to the newspaper, in preparation for a possible war, Iran is
looking for strategic allies, and of its neighbouring countries only
Armenia fits the bill. "It is known that faced with serious economic
sanctions Iran imports banned goods from the Megri corridor [on
Iran-Armenia border] and from the occupied Azerbaijani territories...
There are serious reports saying that recently the bilateral military
cooperation deepened," Baki Xabar reported.
Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani Dunya news agency website, dia.az, carried
three reports on 6 March concerning Iran's policy vis-a-vis
Azerbaijan.
According to the website, in response to an Azerbaijan-Israeli arms
deal worth 1.6bn dollars, Iran is preparing to give Armenia weapons
and munitions worth 300m dollars. "Negotiations to this end are
already under way between Yerevan and the Persian-mullah regime of
Iran," the report said, quoting anonymous sources.
The website also said that many members of Iran's diplomatic missions
in Azerbaijan may be spies. There are 97 people in Iran's diplomatic
mission in Baku. Add to this the staff of the consulate in Naxcivan
and this figure reaches 110. But only 22 of them have diplomatic
status, it said.
Dia.az also quoted the Iranian website arannews.ir as linking the
recent arrests of Muslim believers in Azerbaijan and unrest in
Azerbaijan's Quba District. "Following the Islamophobia policies of
the Baku government in the past two years we have witnessed the
formation of the Islamic movement in the Azerbaijani Republic. Despite
the arrests of many believers, the Islamic movement has entered into a
new stage. For example, we saw unprecedented protests against the
state apparatus in Quba, the town where the currently imprisoned
chairman of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan was born," dia.az quoted
arannews.ir as reporting.
[translated from Azeri]
From: A. Papazian