Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran are deteriorating
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan responded in writing to the note that Iran presented to 12 in February to the Azerbaijani ambassador to Iran. According to the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan, Elman Abdullayev, in a response note to Iran, Baku reflected a reasoned and reasonable position. Abdullayev said that the information of the Iranian side, which is reflected in the note, is absurd, unfounded and far-fetched. According to him, the Azerbaijani authorities will never allow terrorist activities on the territory of their country. It is this position that the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported to the Iranian side in a reply note.
In turn, when commenting on Iranian-Azerbaijani relations, political scientist Zardusht Alizade was forced to state their deterioration. It has already been reported that last week a meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was held. According to the political scientist, the parties mainly discussed the situation with Iran. After the meeting, in public, they said nothing. But now many are interested in how Western politicians use Azerbaijan against Iran. Azerbaijan, according to Alizade, is not interested in opposing Iran, since Iran is the southern strong neighbor, and besides, Azerbaijan has joined the movement of non-affiliated countries.
However, they still want to use it against Iran. And this, apparently, is bearing fruit: a deterioration of relations between Azerbaijan and Iran took place in a week. The Iranian side sent a note of protest to the Azerbaijani authorities for creating conditions for the terrorist groups from Israel to kill the scientists from Iran. According to the political scientist, this is more evidence of the weakness of the Iranian special services, rather than any role of Azerbaijan, which perceives such accusations as slander and slander. At the same time, the Azerbaijani authorities arrested two Azerbaijani journalists working on Iranian television, using their favorite technique - slipping drugs to them. A political analyst noted that one of the detained journalists did not drink, and did not even smoke. He also added that "the tension between Baku and Tehran does not proceed from the interests of either side."
Recall that 12 of February this year, the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Iran, Javanshir Akhundov, was invited to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, where he was handed a protest note in which Tehran accuses Baku of assisting Israel’s security services in the murder of Iran’s nuclear physicist M. Ahmadi -Roshana. Recall that M. Ahmadi-Roshan was killed in January of this year. The Iranian Foreign Ministry also expressed dissatisfaction with the behavior of Azerbaijani customs officers towards Iranian long-distance truck drivers crossing the borders of the two states.
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