Azerbaijan, despite its being a Shi’ite Muslim country, has a strong pro-Western orientation and, to Iran’s dissatisfaction, maintains good relations with Israel… Continue reading
Since the late 1980s, Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, has been a favorite theater of terrorist operations for Iran and Hezbollah… Continue reading
Turkey and Iran often state that there has been peace along their border for more than four hundred years… Continue reading
For the past half year Iran and Hezbollah have organized and carried out a terrorist campaign against Israeli targets abroad… Continue reading
WikiLeaks: Iranian Exporter Discusses Regime Pressures, Smuggling Routes, and Iran Narcotics Problem
Iranian manufacturer and exporter said that he and other export/importers utilizing the Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran route and reverse are occasionally approached by known regime insiders or representatives of Iranian security for “help” in bringing in mis-labeled shipments into and out of Iran… Continue reading
According to widespread rumor, many Iranians in Baku are involved full- or part-time in Iranian regime-related profit making, sanctions-busting, money laundering, and similar activities… Continue reading
A Hizballah cell backed by intelligence from Tehran and external Iranian terror cells in Turkey, Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia, was captured in Baku on Jan. 19 by… Continue reading
Can a single moderate whether secularist or someone who wants to interpret Islam in a more liberal way feel safe… Continue reading
For almost two decades we have been facing the flagrant violation of the UN Charter and other documents of international law by the Republic of Armenia… Continue reading
In recent weeks Iranian media have taken an increasingly critical stance towards Azerbaijan. Most of the criticism against… Continue reading
Burns stressed that the U.S. believes that progress on the Turkey-Armenia protocols could create political space for Sargsian to be more flexible on NK. He continued that the reverse was also true, that a failure of the Turkey-Armenia process would almost… Continue reading
The Asian convoy set out from Delhi in India on December 1. It was delayed for a number of days by the Indian and Pakistani authorities on the border between the two countries, but on December 5 it crossed the border on its way to Lahore, Pakistan, and from… Continue reading
Top Iranian officials announced that they intended to insist on Iran’s demand to gain at least 20 percent of the Caspian Sea waters, and strongly oppose the proposals made by the other littoral countries. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki declared that Iran opposed one-sided treaties concerning the status of the Caspian Sea… Continue reading
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