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IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS OFFER ANNEXING AZERBAIJAN
ARMINFO
Friday, April 19, 13:24
A group of Iranian parliamentarians has prepared a bill that gives
Iran the right to insist on re-annexing Azerbaijani to Iran, Golos
Rossii Radio reports.
The source reports that the bill that terminates Gulistan Treaty of
1913 and the Turkmenchay Treaty of 1928 between Persia and Russia
is a political propaganda, first of all. It has no perspectives, but
openly demonstrates the tension in the relations of Tehran and Baku.
Historically, Azerbaijanis proved to be divided between two super
powers on the basis of the above treaties. However, the political
and public systems in their countries are also different. The views
of the ruling elites in Tehran and Baku regarding the prior state
and national interests do not coincide either. Over the years of
Azerbaijan's independence, the neighbors have accumulated many claims
to each other at the state level.
Director of the Russian Center for Public and Political Studies
Vladimir Yevseev says Iran is dissatisfied with secularization and
European lifestyle of its northern neighbors. Tehran is indignant at
the close ties of Baku with Israel, USA and NATO. Baku, in turn, is
concerned over active religious propaganda among Azerbaijani population
by Iranian preachers. Baku is discontented at Tehran's support to
Armenia in the Karabakh conflict. There are serious discrepancies also
on the status of the Caspian Sea region and the hydrocarbon reserves.
These complicate relations prompt hotheads in Baku and Tehran raise
provocative issue on unification of Azerbaijanis of the two countries
under the flag of their country.
For the first time, one of the conflicting parties comes out for
denunciation of the treaties of the 19th century that legitimize
the existing borders and give the region certain stability. Some
parliamentarians come out for a referendum in the territory of
Azerbaijan on Armenia's annexing to Iran. Another parliamentarian
Mansur Hakikatpur has already began forming a Movement of 17 cities
of the Caucasus to restore Iran's control over Azerbaijan. The
parliamentarian thinks that to fulfill its goals, the Movement may
need a local war.
Not all politicians in Iran share these views, however. Former
parliamentarian Heshmatollah Falahatpishe believes that aggravation of
tension between Iran and Azerbaijan is not in favor for either Tehran
or Baku. Over the last decades disastrous changes have been observed
in the world. Many ruling regimes have been overthrown. Treaties and
agreements turn into pieces of paper, which sometimes results in deaths
of dozens of thousand of people. The epicenters of such geopolitical
shifts are in various parts in the world and in the given region.
ARMINFO
Friday, April 19, 13:24
A group of Iranian parliamentarians has prepared a bill that gives
Iran the right to insist on re-annexing Azerbaijani to Iran, Golos
Rossii Radio reports.
The source reports that the bill that terminates Gulistan Treaty of
1913 and the Turkmenchay Treaty of 1928 between Persia and Russia
is a political propaganda, first of all. It has no perspectives, but
openly demonstrates the tension in the relations of Tehran and Baku.
Historically, Azerbaijanis proved to be divided between two super
powers on the basis of the above treaties. However, the political
and public systems in their countries are also different. The views
of the ruling elites in Tehran and Baku regarding the prior state
and national interests do not coincide either. Over the years of
Azerbaijan's independence, the neighbors have accumulated many claims
to each other at the state level.
Director of the Russian Center for Public and Political Studies
Vladimir Yevseev says Iran is dissatisfied with secularization and
European lifestyle of its northern neighbors. Tehran is indignant at
the close ties of Baku with Israel, USA and NATO. Baku, in turn, is
concerned over active religious propaganda among Azerbaijani population
by Iranian preachers. Baku is discontented at Tehran's support to
Armenia in the Karabakh conflict. There are serious discrepancies also
on the status of the Caspian Sea region and the hydrocarbon reserves.
These complicate relations prompt hotheads in Baku and Tehran raise
provocative issue on unification of Azerbaijanis of the two countries
under the flag of their country.
For the first time, one of the conflicting parties comes out for
denunciation of the treaties of the 19th century that legitimize
the existing borders and give the region certain stability. Some
parliamentarians come out for a referendum in the territory of
Azerbaijan on Armenia's annexing to Iran. Another parliamentarian
Mansur Hakikatpur has already began forming a Movement of 17 cities
of the Caucasus to restore Iran's control over Azerbaijan. The
parliamentarian thinks that to fulfill its goals, the Movement may
need a local war.
Not all politicians in Iran share these views, however. Former
parliamentarian Heshmatollah Falahatpishe believes that aggravation of
tension between Iran and Azerbaijan is not in favor for either Tehran
or Baku. Over the last decades disastrous changes have been observed
in the world. Many ruling regimes have been overthrown. Treaties and
agreements turn into pieces of paper, which sometimes results in deaths
of dozens of thousand of people. The epicenters of such geopolitical
shifts are in various parts in the world and in the given region.