The Jerusalem Post: Israel–Iran conflict places Azerbaijan in a delicate geopolitical position

Published: 2025-06-17 12:47

"Amid the escalating Israeli–Iranian confrontation, Azerbaijan has underscored its commitment to neutrality and warned against any use of its territory for third-party attacks... With the conflict between Israel and Iran spilling over into direct strikes and counter-strikes, Azerbaijan now finds itself in a particularly delicate geopolitical position. While its alliance with Israel runs deep, it shares a long border with Iran and hosts a significant ethnic Azerbaijani population within Iran’s borders," according to the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post.

"Iran will examine whether any foreign airspace facilitated Israeli operations against it—and Azerbaijan is not implicated... There is no basis for Iranian action against Azerbaijan, which hosts neither Israeli nor American military infrastructure," the newspaper quotes Azerbaijani political analyst Farhad Mammadov, head of the Center for Studies of the South Caucasus.

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News