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Expert in Iran: USA tries to play Azerbaijani card to destabilize Iran
ARMINFO
Wednesday, September 19, 16:16
Washington decided to play Azerbaijani card to destabilize Iran for
it is well aware of the high risks of a military attack on that
country. Earlier U.S. Congressman Dane Rorabaher has introduced a
legislative initiative to the House of Representatives (H. CON. RES.
137) on his return from Azerbaijan, which pursues that very goal,
Vardan Voskanyan, an expert in Iran, told media in Yerevan, Wednesday.
The draft resolution says "the Azerbaijani people is divided between
Azerbaijan and Iran and have the right to self-determination and to
their own sovereign country if they so choose." The expert believes
that the given document contains many wrong theses and is, actually,
another provocation of the West against Iran.
"The point is that there is no Azerbaijani people in Iran as such.
Those are Turkic-language Iranians who, by the way, behave to the
Caucasian Tatars - residents of the current Republic of Azerbaijan
extremely disparagingly. They have never identified themselves with
the population of today's Azerbaijan, I think that all the attempts to
conduct the referendum suggested by the congressman are doomed to
failure and aim to destabilize the domestic political situation in
Iran by means of the ethnic factor," the expert said.
Voskanyan said that Turkey with the support of Washington tries to
oust the Iranian factor from Azerbaijan fostering suppressions of
Talishes - autochthonous Persian-speaking population of Azerbaijan.
"In this light, it is noteworthy that an official Consulate of Turkey
has been opened in Lankaran, an actual capital of Talishstan. Never
before there was a Turkish element in the territories populated by
Talishes," Voskanyan said.
ARMINFO
Wednesday, September 19, 16:16
Washington decided to play Azerbaijani card to destabilize Iran for
it is well aware of the high risks of a military attack on that
country. Earlier U.S. Congressman Dane Rorabaher has introduced a
legislative initiative to the House of Representatives (H. CON. RES.
137) on his return from Azerbaijan, which pursues that very goal,
Vardan Voskanyan, an expert in Iran, told media in Yerevan, Wednesday.
The draft resolution says "the Azerbaijani people is divided between
Azerbaijan and Iran and have the right to self-determination and to
their own sovereign country if they so choose." The expert believes
that the given document contains many wrong theses and is, actually,
another provocation of the West against Iran.
"The point is that there is no Azerbaijani people in Iran as such.
Those are Turkic-language Iranians who, by the way, behave to the
Caucasian Tatars - residents of the current Republic of Azerbaijan
extremely disparagingly. They have never identified themselves with
the population of today's Azerbaijan, I think that all the attempts to
conduct the referendum suggested by the congressman are doomed to
failure and aim to destabilize the domestic political situation in
Iran by means of the ethnic factor," the expert said.
Voskanyan said that Turkey with the support of Washington tries to
oust the Iranian factor from Azerbaijan fostering suppressions of
Talishes - autochthonous Persian-speaking population of Azerbaijan.
"In this light, it is noteworthy that an official Consulate of Turkey
has been opened in Lankaran, an actual capital of Talishstan. Never
before there was a Turkish element in the territories populated by
Talishes," Voskanyan said.