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Iran, however, blamed the crash on bad weather. [citation needed] On February 25, 2007, Iran launched a counter-offensive against the PJAK group in the northeast of Iran's West Azerbaijan province, near the Turkish border. According to Iran's state news agencies, as many as 47 Kurdish rebels and 17 Iranian soldiers were killed in the violence ...
Despite Azerbaijan being a majority Shi'a country, decades of conflict with Iran has also led a huge legacy of this tension, and it is also expanded to other Iran-backed groups' attitude toward Azerbaijan, notably Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shi'a militant group. Hezbollah members had been arrested in 2009 following a failed attempt by Hezbollah ...
Relations between Iran and Azerbaijan have improved somewhat since the accession of Hassan Rouhani in Iran. During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, Azerbaijan gained complete control of the western section of the border with Iran within one month from the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, ultimately restoring Azerbaijani control over the ...
Arms supplied by Russia (denied by Iran) [10] [11] Azerbaijani victory Azerbaijan regains control of 5 cities, 4 towns, 286 villages [12] and the entire Azerbaijan–Iran border: Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis (2021–present) September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes; 2021 2022; Ongoing 2022; Azerbaijan Armenia Azerbaijani Victory
Iranian-government affiliated Fars News Agency also reported the event, claiming the militants were linked with the larger group, 11 of whom were killed a week earlier. [22] According to Iranian state media, on 10 July, an Iranian MP the representative of the county of Eslamabad-e Gharb escaped an assassination attempt in Western Iran. [28]
Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway, less than three ...
Azerbaijan's decision in March 2023 to open an embassy in Israel, Iran's archenemy, also contributed to the deterioration in ties. Azerbaijan borders Iran’s northwest and was part of the Persian ...
According to Iranian-born American political scientist Shireen Hunter, Turkey has been trying for a long time to establish a direct link to Azerbaijan by eliminating Iran's access to Armenia. [53] Hunter explains that "Turkey has long wanted to have a land route to Azerbaijan and from there to northern Iran and Central Asia". [53]