Responsible Statecraft: Azerbaijan's strategic importance to the US depends on “Iranian threat”

Published: 2025-03-24 13:50

“There is no doubt that Israel and Azerbaijan would welcome “trilateral collaboration” with the U.S. that Netanyahu’s office favors. But it is difficult to see how it would serve long-term U.S. interests, particularly its interest in avoiding new military commitments in the Greater Middle East that could entangle Washington in alliances that could drag it into new wars there, either directly or by proxy... Azerbaijan’s strategic significance to the U.S. is negligible. It mostly hinges on a massively inflated “Iran threat.” A far better way forward would be for Washington to settle its differences with Tehran in a peaceful way, as indeed Trump purports to want to do.”

This was reported in an article by Responsible Statecraft, the online magazine of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft — a U.S. think tank known for its isolationist stance and advocacy of restraint in foreign policy.

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News