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ISRAEL - AZERBAIJAN MILITARY RELATIONSHIPS WORRY TURKEY
http://www.yerkir.am/en/news/22558.htm
11:36 - 29.03.2012
Azerbaijan has granted Israel access to airbases in its territory
along Iran's northern border for potential use in a military strike
against Iranian nuclear facilities, a report published Wednesday in
Foreign Policy magazine quoted senior US officials as saying.
"The Israelis have bought an airfield," an official said, "and the
airfield is called Azerbaijan."
Even if Israel doesn't use the fields for a direct air strike on
Iran, Azerbaijan could still prove useful for Jerusalem's interests
in the region. The bases could be used as a jumping point for IDF
search-and-rescue units, the report quoted a US intelligence official
as saying.
According to the Foreign Policy report, the Obama administration
believes the Jerusalem-Baku relationship is raising the risk of an
Israeli strike on Iran. Senior US officials have said that Israel's
military expansion into Azerbaijan is complicating US efforts to
defuse Israeli-Iranian tensions. "We're watching what Israel is doing
in Azerbaijan. And we're not happy about it," one official said.
The relationship between Israel and the predominantly Muslim country
on Iran's northern border is believed to be robust. The Foreign Policy
report quoted a 1995 article in The Jerusalem Post as saying bilateral
relations started in 1994 and have blossomed ever since. "Strauss ice
cream, cell phones produced by Motorola's Israeli division, Maccabi
beer, and other Israeli imports are ubiquitous [in Azerbaijan],"
the Jerusalem Post article stated.
http://www.yerkir.am/en/news/22558.htm
11:36 - 29.03.2012
Azerbaijan has granted Israel access to airbases in its territory
along Iran's northern border for potential use in a military strike
against Iranian nuclear facilities, a report published Wednesday in
Foreign Policy magazine quoted senior US officials as saying.
"The Israelis have bought an airfield," an official said, "and the
airfield is called Azerbaijan."
Even if Israel doesn't use the fields for a direct air strike on
Iran, Azerbaijan could still prove useful for Jerusalem's interests
in the region. The bases could be used as a jumping point for IDF
search-and-rescue units, the report quoted a US intelligence official
as saying.
According to the Foreign Policy report, the Obama administration
believes the Jerusalem-Baku relationship is raising the risk of an
Israeli strike on Iran. Senior US officials have said that Israel's
military expansion into Azerbaijan is complicating US efforts to
defuse Israeli-Iranian tensions. "We're watching what Israel is doing
in Azerbaijan. And we're not happy about it," one official said.
The relationship between Israel and the predominantly Muslim country
on Iran's northern border is believed to be robust. The Foreign Policy
report quoted a 1995 article in The Jerusalem Post as saying bilateral
relations started in 1994 and have blossomed ever since. "Strauss ice
cream, cell phones produced by Motorola's Israeli division, Maccabi
beer, and other Israeli imports are ubiquitous [in Azerbaijan],"
the Jerusalem Post article stated.