Alik Bakhshi
Azerbaijan
and the war between Israel and Iran
Since the first day of independence, Azerbaijan has
positioned itself as a country that observes neutrality. The existing
"Treaty on Strategic Partnership and Mutual Assistance between the Republic
of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Turkey" does not violate the neutrality
of Azerbaijan in any way, since it can only be used if one of them is attacked.
Common potential enemies of Azerbaijan and Turkey for many years have been
Armenia, Russia and Iran.
Since the emergence of the Nazi Dashnaktsutyun party in
Tbilisi in 1890, Armenia has laid claim to a vast territory of the Middle East,
including Azerbaijan with its capital Baku and a third of Turkey, as well as
other territories up to Israel. The map drawn by Armenian pseudo-historians
shows Greater Armenia, not according to a historical myth, but according to a
myth from the Nazi Dashnaktsutyun party:
All my attempts to find in what historical period Greater
Armenia existed were unsuccessful. (1,2) Perhaps the kings, emperors, khans,
sultans did not even suspect that they were subjects of an empire called
Greater Armenia. The Armenians who came to the Middle East from Thrace settled
in Urartu and subsequently spread throughout the Middle Eastern countries,
creating compact centers of residence, which is typical for them throughout
their history. This feature is confirmed by such geographical places as Crimea,
Georgia (at the time of the conquest of Georgia, Armenians in Tbilisi made up
60% of the population), Kuban (today there are more Armenians in Kuban than
Kuban Cossacks), as well as overseas - California. Thus, if we take into
account the fact that Armenians live in many geographical places, this in no
way can serve as a reason for organizing an Armenian state on this territory.
The first attempt to create a Greater Armenia was made by
the Dashnaks during the First World War in Turkey, when the Armenians living
there carried out ethnic cleansing in order to create an Armenian state on the
territory free of the Muslim population. Having raised an armed rebellion in
the frontline rear, the Armenians did not attack regular troops, they began to
beat the local unarmed population, hundreds of thousands of refugees appeared
even before the arrival of Russian troops. Armed Armenian rebellions
facilitated the advance of the Russian army deep into Turkish territory. In
order to secure its rear, the Turkish government ordered the eviction of
Armenians from the places where the Russian army was expected to advance. Now
columns of forcibly evicted Armenians stretched south towards Syria through the
area where the population had settled, having fled earlier from the brutal
pogroms committed by Armenian militants. And what could not help but happen
happened: driven by revenge, the Turks and Kurds attacked the defenseless
Armenians. Evil begot evil. This terrible tragedy of 1915, which cost the lives
of hundreds of thousands of Armenians, might not have happened if the Armenian
militants had not carried out the tactics of "squeezing out" the
peaceful Turkish and Kurdish population, sowing the seeds of evil, which still
grow as weeds of hostility, in the South Caucasus. As a result, all this turned
into a tragedy for the Armenians, which they call genocide, identical to the
genocide of European Jews. But the genocide of the Jews was planned by the
German authorities and was part of the fascist ideology, but nothing like this
happened in Turkey. To call the spontaneous revenge of the common people in
response to the ethnic cleansing undertaken by the Armenians genocide is a
gross mistake. The blame for what happened in Turkey lies entirely with the
premeditated massacre of Muslims by the ideologists of the Dashnaktsutyun
party.
The second attempt to create a Greater Armenia was made in
Azerbaijan in 1918. Armenian armed Dashnaks, with the help of the local
Armenian diaspora, carried out brutal pogroms in Baku and other cities, and who
knows how it would have ended if not for the help of the brotherly people of
Turkey. Then Ataturk sent an army to Azerbaijan to suppress the Armenian
rebellion. (3)
The third attempt is known as the Karabakh War. With the
support of Moscow, the Armenians captured 20% of Azerbaijani territory and held
it for 30 years, counting on the immutability of political relations with
Russia. However, due to economic circumstances, Moscow found itself dependent
on Turkey, and did not dare to openly provide military assistance to Yerevan,
when the renewed army of Azerbaijan, with the military-technical support of
Turkey, restored sovereignty over the entire territory occupied by the
Armenians.
Despite the
crushing defeat, Armenia refused to conclude a peace treaty and, as usual,
rushed to look for a new patron to replace Russia, hoping to find one in the
West. (4) Naturally, such a policy of Yerevan is perceived by Moscow as
treacherous, because after all, it was Russia that made the Armenians' dream of
their own state come true. The first ever Armenian state formation in the form
of a Soviet republic was created by Russia on the site of the Yerevan Khanate
of Azerbaijan with the deportation of the Azerbaijani population. Formally
being in a strategic alliance with Russia in the CSTO, Armenia today finds
itself in the unenviable position of Buridan's donkey, which, due to the
catastrophic state of the economy, will have no choice but to choose between
the two. (5) Moreover, our donkey (if we are talking about the Caucasus region,
then a donkey is usually called a donkey there) has gone to all lengths, having
made friends with the Tehran obscurantists. Here we cannot count on help from
the West, for whom Iran is a bone in the throat. There was a time when Iran had
excellent relations with its neighbors in the Middle East, including Israel.
Shah Pahlavi of Iran, who graduated from a university in Switzerland, was a
supporter of the development of his country on the model of Western
civilization, like Turkey, which had taken a rather bold step for the
religiously orthodox East by separating religion from the state. But if Ataturk
had the support of the Young Turks in his progressive reforms, Pahlavi had no
such support. And yet, thanks to petrodollars, the country was rapidly
developing in technical and economic terms and was on the verge of an economic
boom. Following American goods, the seeds of Western culture penetrated the
country. American films literally flooded cinemas and television. Young people,
like a sponge, absorbed everything new and unusual. The “corruption of the
souls” of the faithful provoked the wrath of the religious elite, who saw in
the cultural transformation of society a threat to their influence on the
masses. All attempts to convince the Shah to turn away from the path he had
chosen, which ran counter to religious dogma, were unsuccessful. Moreover, the
Shah did not stand on ceremony with his ideological opponents, and the future
father of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, even had to leave Iran
and become a kind of martyr for the Faith. Everyone knows the tragic end of the
transformation of Iranian society, undertaken by none other than the Shahanshah
(Shah of all Shahs) of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. A proud loner ahead of his
time, he ended his last days in exile. Cruel terror scattered the shoots of new
life. The guards of the Islamic Revolution took great pleasure in publicly
executing women who dared to appear with an open face or were caught in
treason. Cinemas burned with spectators locked inside. The black veil of
religious fanaticism fell upon Iran once again, cutting it off from the rest of
the world and, in an instant, plunging the country into an era of medieval
obscurantism. The plans of the Shahanshah, who had received a European
education, to reform public consciousness and impose a European way of life on
his people turned out to be premature and caused a sharp rejection by the
people, which the clergy took advantage of, which cost Pahlavi his throne. The
civilized world was shocked by what happened in Iran, and only Moscow remained
silent. Communists have always respected all totalitarian regimes that are
close to them in spirit, be it fascist in Germany, dictatorial in Libya or
Iraq, and now another of its varieties - religious totalitarianism in the
person of the Islamic state of Iran. The religious regime has immediately
destroyed Iran's friendly ties not only with the United States, the main
stronghold of world democracy, but also with the surrounding Muslim countries.
If under the Shah Iran was part of the military bloc CENTO, together with
Turkey and Pakistan, created to counter Russia's traditional expansion to the
South towards the Indian Ocean, then after the Islamic Revolution the bloc fell
apart. Figuratively speaking, Iran began to resemble a bristling porcupine.
Thus, the regime brought relations with Iraq to an 8-year war. It must be said
that after Azerbaijan became independent, the Tehran obscurantists attempted to
create friendly relations. Azerbaijani youth were invited to study in Iran,
free madrassas were opened in Baku, where the main focus was on religious
education. The authorities recognized the purpose of such an enterprise in time
and expelled the Iranian clerics from the country.
In order to
somehow find understanding at least among Muslims, the Tehran obscurantists
happily seized on the Palestinian problem. Like any totalitarian regime, in
order to distract the people from their internal problems, the ayatollahs need
an enemy, and in this regard, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict turned up just
in time. In fact, not everything is so clear-cut, the Tehran ayatollahs are,
first of all, pragmatists to the core, and only then clerics. This is confirmed
by the fact that Iran, along with Christian Russia, is an ally of Christian
Armenia - the worst enemy of Azerbaijan, by the way, Shiite. It is difficult to
imagine that Sunnis and Shiites will begin to fraternize if a Palestinian state
is created with Iran's help. And what will Iran gain from this? Nothing! And
the main thing that Tehran undoubtedly understands is that a nuclear attack on
Israel by Iran, if it possesses a nuclear bomb, is tantamount to signing its
own death warrant. It is important to note here that the Arab organization Al-Qaeda,
which is truly an enemy of Israel, has no ties to Iran, on the contrary, it is
its opponent, acting on the side of the Syrian rebels in their war with the
dictator Bashar al-Assad, who is supported by Tehran together with Moscow. The
totalitarian regime of the ayatollahs, as well as the sovereign democracy
represented by the sovereign Putin, have no need for democratic revolutions.
Democracy is like death for the ayatollahs, therefore the need to isolate the
population, especially its young part, from the penetration of democratic ideas
is the primary task of the religious regime. In order to protect Iran and its
people from the outside world and thereby preserve their power, the Tehran
obscurantists need to give the country the status of a nuclear power, from
which everyone will shy away. Here is your answer to the question of why Iran
needs a bomb. The bitterness of Iranian society against the outside world is
skillfully cultivated by the religious elite, which in its propaganda presents
Western democracy and its main stronghold - the United States - as the
personification of Satan, which, naturally, cannot but affect Iran's foreign
policy, which has acquired an aggressive character. Since then, Iran has had
strained relations with the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, no relations at
all with Afghanistan and Pakistan, and difficult relations with the Turkic
countries. For example, with Azerbaijan, I would even say hostile, and this
despite the fact that the Azerbaijanis are mostly Shiites. The explanation for
this should be seen, first of all, in the fact that after Northern Azerbaijan
gained independence, the Azerbaijani people finally received the opportunity to
control their own destiny, develop their national culture, economy, open up to
the world, taking part in various international events. For 30 million
Azerbaijanis of Southern Azerbaijan, located in Iran, Northern Azerbaijan
(population 10 million) has become an example of what freedom and independence
can give to people. This circumstance cannot but worry Tehran. Moreover, it
should be taken into account that Northern Azerbaijan is a secular state that
has taken the path of democracy. Another reason for Tehran's unfriendly
attitude towards Baku is purely economic. The bottom of the Caspian Sea in the
area between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan is rich in oil and gas, which arouses
envy in both Iran and Russia.
Thus,
Azerbaijan has serious regional opponents in the form of Armenia and Iran, and
there is no need to talk about Russia, which has spent most of its history
fighting in the Caucasus with the Turkic countries of Turkey and Persia. I
called Persia Turkic because the Persians have not ruled Persia since the Arab
Caliphate (632), which fell under the blows of the Turks in 1055, and in 1258
the Caliphate completely disappeared as a state entity. Since then, the
territory of Persia was ruled by the Turks for 7 centuries until the emergence
of the first non-Turkic Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979). Moscow has traditionally
not abandoned its dream of taking over Turkey and Iran. Thus, after World War
II, Moscow tried to impose territorial claims on Turkey at the Potsdam
Conference, citing the fact that the Montreux Convention on the Black Sea
Straits was outdated and subject to revision. In addition, it insisted on
granting the USSR the right to have a naval base for joint control with Turkey
over the straits in order to ensure their security, and also demanded that the
USSR transfer territory in northeastern Turkey to accommodate more than a
million Armenians living abroad and dreaming of returning to Armenia. Moscow
had already allocated part of the territory of Azerbaijan (the Yerevan Khanate)
for the Armenians, now it was necessary to provide part of Turkish territory
for the Armenians. Having failed to achieve success at the Potsdam Conference,
in 1946 the USSR directly addressed Turkey with a note of impudent demands to
revise the status of the Black Sea straits, which Turkey decisively rejected
with the support of the United States and Great Britain. And only in 1953 did
Russia abandon its territorial claims against Turkey in connection with
Turkey's entry into NATO. As for Iran during World War II, after capturing
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the Russian army invaded Iran on August
25, 1941, meaning that even the war with Germany that had already begun could
not disrupt Moscow's pre-planned plans for Iran. The occupation of Iran by the
Soviet Union lasted until April 1946 and was explained by the Kremlin as
ensuring security in the event of aggression from Turkey. Naturally, few
believed in this absurdity. Stalin wanted to include the territory of South Azerbaijan,
located in Iran, into the USSR, and bring a puppet communist party to power in
Tehran, as was later done in the Eastern European countries that became members
of the Warsaw Pact. For this purpose, a communist party was organized in the
occupied part of Iran, whose task was to establish a communist regime in the
country. However, these plans of Moscow were not destined to come true,
moreover, they violated the Potsdam Agreements, which caused a sharp protest
from the USA and Great Britain. The Soviet Union was given an ultimatum that by
the anniversary of the end of the war, that is, by May 9, 1946, not a single
Russian soldier should remain on Iranian territory. They had to obey because
Stalin was given to understand that otherwise the US would use an atomic bomb;
at that time, Moscow did not yet possess the secret of creating atomic weapons,
which was handed over by the Rosenberg couple a little later. And, who knows,
if political circumstances had developed differently and Stalin had not made
concessions, then after the collapse of the USSR, the Turkic people of
Azerbaijan would have lived in one state and the problem of the Zangezur
corridor would not have been so urgent. (6)
Today, the
contours of a union of Turkic countries occupying a vast area from Asia Minor
to Altai, or from the Angara River in Turkey to the Angara River in Siberia,
are becoming increasingly clear. The ideology of pan-Turkism became relevant
after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as evidenced by the creation of the
Organization of Turkic States. The positive side of unification based on ethnic
unity and language is well demonstrated by the ideology of Pan-Germanism, which
united 22 German states in 1871. Modern Germany is the most powerful and
richest country in Europe. In the example of Azerbaijan, we see how the
political intentions of powerful countries influence the fate of nations. In
order not to be like a leaf in the wind, subject to someone's political
aspirations, it is necessary to cast aside the rivalry that constantly haunts
the Turks and unite, creating a union similar to the European Union.(7)
The
consolidation of Turkic countries is perceived by Russia and Iran as a threat
to their security due to the presence of territories that are historically
Turkic. An obstacle to the territorial continuity of Turan is Zangezur,
transferred by Moscow to Armenia in 1920. Since then, Nakhichevan has received
the status of an autonomous region of Azerbaijan, which does not have a common
border with Azerbaijan. The seizure of Azerbaijani land with its transfer to
Armenians from Persia and Turkey began back in 1828 after the conclusion of the
Treaty of Turkmanchay, according to which the Yerevan and Nakhichevan khanates
became part of the Russian Empire, and was accompanied by the deportation of
the Azerbaijani population. Today, the Zangezur corridor is a place where the
geopolitical interests of Russia and Iran intersect, and the existing
Moscow-Yerevan-Tehran axis serves as a noose in this most vulnerable place. (8)
As a
result, taking into account the above historical circumstances, Azerbaijan's
strategic opponents are Armenia, whose people are sick with the Dashnak
ideology, which is based on the myth of Great Armenia, Russia as a former
metropolis with revanchist plans, and Iran with a 30 million Azerbaijani
population. Israel's enemies are represented by the Arab countries, Russia,
which supports the Arabs for geopolitical anti-American reasons, and Iran, as
an ideological opponent, which contains the anti-Israeli organization Hezbollah
and is engaged in enriching uranium, according to the official version, for a
nuclear reactor. It should be noted that Israel is wary of all countries in the
Middle East that are building a nuclear reactor, preferring to destroy the
reactor regardless of the purpose of construction. Thus, in 1981, Israel
attacked a nuclear reactor in Iraq, and in 2007, it destroyed a nuclear reactor
in Syria. Now it is clear why, in addition to economic ties, Azerbaijan and
Israel have developed close political relations that are not officially
demonstrated - both countries have common enemies in the form of Iran and
Russia.
Following
the principle of not allowing the implementation of any programs related to
nuclear technology, Israel, after long useless international negotiations with
religious fanatics in Tehran, finally decided to take military action to
destroy facilities related to nuclear research and technology. The war that has
begun consists of mutual missile and bomb strikes. Time will tell how much the
religious regime of Iran will suffer. Perhaps the Iranian people will remember
the time when the country was successfully developing under the Shah, a
supporter of Western culture and an opponent of the influence of religion on
public consciousness, and will cause a protest movement, and possibly a civil
war.
In such a
scenario, in order to protect the 30 million Azerbaijani population, Baku may
send troops to Southern Azerbaijan, followed by a referendum on the
reunification of the two parts, divided in the past due to known historical
circumstances.
1. Was
there a Great Armenia? https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/71952.html
2. Great
Armenia, or the Great Lie. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/75170.html
3.
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/13967.html
3. Armenia
is again in search of patrons. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/92137.html
4. Armenia
in the role of Buridan's donkey. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/58251.html
5.
Political collisions and the fate of Azerbaijan.
https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/95510.html
6. One
language, one homeland. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/16879.html
7. Armenia
and the Moscow-Tehran axis. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/1347.html
06/21/2025
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