Tensions are flaring between Baku and Tehran after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched widespread military drills in a show of force along their shared border. Iran’s exercises mark the first time in Azerbaijan’s thirty years of independence that a foreign state has directly threatened its sovereignty.
Azerbaijan has said that it is looking to repair its diplomatic ties with Iran through dialogue after the two fell out earlier this month following a series of allegations that the Israeli military was present in Azerbaijan and that Iran's military supported Armenia in last year's conflict.
“The reasons for what it is happening with Iran is not because of our relations with some other country, because our foreign policy is very open, transparent, stable and as I said independent”, said President Ilham Aliyev in his interview with the Italian La Repubblica newspaper.
Azerbaijan said Wednesday it has agreed with Iran to resolve their diplomatic crisis through dialogue, weeks after ties soured over allegations that Israel’s military was active in Azerbaijan.
With the bar for success high, proceedings will likely turn into a forum to air grievances, throw mud at one another, and ultimately reinforce division between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. It is the exact opposite of what is currently needed; lawfare rather than diplomacy.
The illegal settlement of Armenian nationals in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan in the aftermath of Armenia's military aggression early in the 1990s was rather a continuation than a beginning of their long-standing intention to change demography across the South Caucasus in support of their own myth of the "Greater Armenia".
Kalın named the issues that are set to be discussed at a bilateral meeting to be held within the framework of the G-20 leaders' summit in Rome on Oct. 30-31.
Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB) kicked off its participation at Expo 2020 Dubai with an event dedicated to encouraging travellers to take another look at what the country has to offer as the ‘new normal’ emerges for world travel.
In just a couple of days, Russia’s biggest oil and gas company announced it would mark a significant footprint in Caspian gas and crude oil exploration in Azerbaijan. Lukoil has bought shares from BP and Petronas, following approval from Azeri authorities.
Aleksandar Vucic met today with Jeyhun Bayramov in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic. An important meeting between the president of Serbia with the minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan has been held.
Azerbaijan, a Eurasian country at the border of Eastern Europe and western Asia, increased its production of natural gas by 36%, or more than 200 billion cubic feet (Bcf), between 2017 and 2019.
Tehran remains categorically against the opening of any corridor between Azerbaijan proper and Nakhichevan through the Zengezur corridor, but its pledge to help Armenia build a corridor between Armenia and Iran could unintentionally make progress on the Azerbaijani one possible.
The conference “Overcoming the challenges of landmines in Azerbaijan’s quest for peace, development and reconstruction” was held on Tuesday, 12 October 2021 at the Park Inn Hotel in Baku.
A picture is worth a thousand policy briefs. On Oct. 4, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, mugged for the cameras. Beaming before reporters, he stroked, patted, and put a loving arm around a Harop, a kamikaze drone manufactured by Israel.
If we disregard the propaganda and various media announcements typical of publicity campaigns and try to distill the economic gist of Tehran's discontent, we will find that it is about financial flows. It is about real currency that Iranian companies received from direct and shadow trade with Armenia.
“The No. 1 enemy of this country is the Zionist regime, whose national security doctrine includes the weakening and destruction of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Iranian political analyst Mostafa Khoshcheshm.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is contributing to world peace, justice, and solidarity, the Azerbaijani president said on Monday, as the group marks its 60th anniversary.
The Azerbaijani village of Lahij lies in a gorge of the Nial mountains, about a three-hour drive west of Baku. Its narrow cobbled streets, houses made of stones from the river, workshops and stores look just as they did centuries ago.
With the victory of Azerbaijan against Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh region almost completing its first year, the South Caucasus region does not yet seem ready to enter a phase of long-term stability.
Belgrade will encourage dialogue between East and West, says president of Serbia which hosts anniversary events.
Kamola Makhmudova has assumed her role as new head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Azerbaijan.
Vladimir Putin, Nikol Pashinyan will review implementation of Nagorno-Karabakh agreements, says Kremlin.
Azerbaijani officials rejected claims by Iranian officials that Israeli forces are present on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border.
For Azeri chef Orkhan Mukhtarov spending 12 hours to create a single dish is just another day’s work—but an especially satisfying one.
