Iran's cooperation with Russia undermines Azerbaijan

Published: 2025-03-05 11:18

The leading American source for conservative news, Townhall: "Iran’s bilateral cooperation with Russia has allowed it for years to undermine Azerbaijan. Although both countries are majority Shi’a Muslim, the fundamentalists controlling Iran fear and detest Azerbaijan for three reasons. Opposing religious extremism, Azerbaijan is one of the world’s few genuinely secular Islamic states. It has a good relationship with Israel. The majority of citizens of Iran’s north-western borderlands are ethnic Azeris upon whom Tehran continually commits human rights violations. To directly undermine Azerbaijan, Iran cynically used the Russian-Armenian oligarch Ruben Vardanyan, nicknamed “Putin’s Wallet,” to attack Azerbaijan. Vardanyan served as “state minister” of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which was carved from Azerbaijani territory to serve as a springboard for Russian activities in the Caucasus and which Iran supported to pressure Azerbaijan."

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News