Adopted in this regard. This and more on this edition of iran today. Of of as the soviet union was collapsing, nagornokarabakh declared its independence with the intention of reunifying with armenia. A war ensued after the controversial declaration, tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced. A seasfire in 1994 left armenia in control of the territory. A second war erupted in 2020, which claimed thousands of lives and displayed. Tens of thousands of people, this time, azerbaijan recaptured much of the territory and its surroundings. The return of nagornokarabakh to azerbaijany control is likely to change the Power Dynamics in the south caucasus, a region that for centuries has been at the crossroad of geopolitical interest of russia, turkey, iran as well as western nations. Years of geopolitical. Accounts for the dispute between the two former soviet republics over nagornokarabakh. The region lies within azerbaijans internationally recognized borders and has been home to tens of thousands of Ethnic Armenians. Armenian separatist surrender could trigger in instability in armenia, where Prime MinisterNicole Pashinyan has sought to build closer ties with the west despite a military alliance with russia. To know more about the developments in the south. Peshinian government, it should be said that the governments behavior is mostly focused on expelling the russians and at the same time and getting help from america, fronts and some other western countries to solve its problems, but the armenian government should know that the. Americans and the french do not care about preserving the countrys territorial integrity. They are focused on undermining the influence of russia in armenia. They have such a plan and the perishinian government should know that it is making a big mistake. Russia and iran are the neighbors of armenia, and we have common interests with it, and neglecting these common interests and seeking help from american fronts, which do not care about preserving armenias territorial integrity, will only harm this country. On the other hand, back. Has been seeking to cement its military gains through blocking overland traffic between armenia and nagornokarabakh. Another person with great knowledge about caucases is former Iranian Ambassador to baku. He told us about the complexity of the situation in the region. اولویت جمهوری آذربایجان آزادسازی. Today the priority of azerbaijan is the liberation of karabakh. Thats why it has blocked the lotching cross. That connects armenia to karabakh, thats because armenia sends weapons to the separatists of nagornokarabakh, the Islamic Republic of iran considers luchin and nagornokarabakh to be part of azerbaijan, but at the same time, iran is interested in preserving the rights of the armenians in nagornokarabakh, is interested in preventing a humanitarian disaster in this region. Iran wants the nagornokarabakh problem to be resolved peacefully through negotiating. Says that the territorial integrity of these two countries should be maintained, the International Borders should not change weve asked the republic of azerbaijan to be lenient towards the armenians of nagornokarabakh, are citizens of this country, and we have also asked armenia to recognize the territorial integrity of azerbaijan. Nagornokarabakh has been the stage for various region. And international players, prominent among them, russia, turkey, the United States and some European Countries. Russia has long played a central role in the dispute, but the ukraine war has adversely affected this role, especially following bakus victory in september. Turkey, which sides with azerbaijan has been pursuing assertive Foreign Policy in the region. The United States has long sought influence in the south cook. And other states in the former soviet block. Thats while the European Union is mostly interested in azerbaijan as an Energy Partner that can make up at least partly for the loss of russian imports. But what about iran . As a neighbor, iran has always done its best to solve the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia over nagornokarabakh. In 1991, after the collapse the former soviet union. 15 soviet republics including azerbaijan and armenia, broke away, but both newly established states had border claims over the nagornokarabakh region. Iran has tended to resolve the nagornokarabakh conflict peacefully. Over the past decade, iranian governments have tried to play a role of mediator in the karabak conflict, most notably in 1990. This is mr. Daryu safarnejad, an iranian expert in eurosian issues and one that the Un Security Council authorizes, the organization for security and cooperation, europe to mediate the peace in karabakh, the other one is the resolution that b proposes every year that karabag is in the territorial framework of azerbaijan. In the last 30 years, the Islamic Republic has officially given two votes in favor of azerbaijan every year, that is, we have given 60 votes only in the United Nations. Weve voted the same in the organization of islamic cooperation, in the Nonalignment Movement and other forums as well. Our official vote is that karabagh is part of the land of azerbaijan. In october 1993 during the war, the then president of iran Akbar Hashemi rafsanjani traveled to baku and had frequent private meetings with the then other president heydar aliyev. The rafsanni administration arranged host of bilateral and trilateral meetings with azari and armenian sides to hammer out a peace plan to end military confrontation between baku and yearwan in the 1990s. In its official statements iranian. Governments have always called for peaceful settlement and restraint during skirmishes. At the same time, the officials have repeatedly reaffirmed their support for azerbaijans territorial integrity. Tehrans decision came after the United NationsGeneral Assembly adopted a resolution which reaffirmed azerbaijans territorial integrity on march 14th 2008. The resolution expressed support for bakus internet. Nationally recognized borders and demanded the immediate withdrawal of all Armenian Forces from all occupied territories there. However, iran has time and again warned that yearwans National Sovereignty must also be respected by the azary side and tehran will not tolerate any change in the geopolitical borders of the kaucasus region as its red line. جمهوری اسلامی به عنوان تنها کشوری که با تمام طرفین دعوا هممرزه. The Islamic Republic is the only country that shares a border with all parties to the dispute, has the right to monitor the situation and to be aware of the progress of the affairs. After all, weve been present in syria for 13 years to prevent takfity salafies and daesh from being present in our neighborhood, but today we see that with the leadership of nato, tagfity salafy forces have been brought in the region for three years. Theyve settled in the south. The south caucasus dressing the uniforms of the azerbaijani army. In addition, we see that extraoriginal actors have come to the region such as the Israeli Regime, and for years, it has sent a lot large amount of weapons to the region and exchange for the oil that the regime buys from azerbaijan. Historically, the Islamic Republic of iran is obliged to defend south caucasus people, their rights and their territorial integrity in azerbaijan or armenia, regardless of who they are ruled by. نباید مرز های منطقه تغییر پیدا کن. Iran believes that the International Borders of the region should not be changed. Iran recognizes these borders and sovereignty of countries and their territorial integrity. Iran considers itself obligated to protect the principles and charter and International Law in the protection of International Borders in this room. Now like the European Countries believes that the territorial integrity of armenia should be preserved, although the europeans do not have an acceptable re the support of the rs and security of the armenians of karabakh, but for this purpose iran has established a consult in the province of sionic and in the city of kapan. Welcome to the news section of the program where we take a look at some news exerps from different news websites. Un Mission Arrives in nagornokarabakh for the first time in 30 years. According to euro news, the move comes as more than 100,000 people have fled the nagornokarabakh region equivalent to almost the entire. Entire population of the Ethnic Armenian enclave since azerbaijan seized the region last week. Azerbaijan is hungry for land. Armenians fear country will seek to grab more territory. The guardian writes, the locals believe after bakus success in nagornokarabakh, it could attempt to encroach farther. France will open consulate in armenia sunic provides 7 Million Euros for nogarno. Public radio armenia writes. France will open a Consular Office in armenias Southern Province of stunic and allocate additional aid of 7 Million Euros to armenia and nagornokarabakh, foreign minister Katherine Colona said during a q a session in the parliament. This brings us to the end of this section. Please stay tuned as we go back to our main narrative. As predicted riad under pressure from. May accept flimsy zionist american promises so that the wagon will set off towards what n called the new middle east that zionists like deceased shimon perez had always dreamed of. There is no arab world nor a palestinian cause in the map that netanyahu heralds. Rather there is a Regional Power solarly zionist israel supported by United States of america that plunders from arabs oil money to establish its superiority. Alas everything is now out in the open, normalizing relations between saudi arabia and the israel. The entity lead to the palestinians losing a friend who was only ashamed to deal with the zionists in public, and now has the chance to do it openly. Saudi arabia embraces zionists this week on the midd stream. For the Islamic Republic of iran, the socalled zangazure corridor situated on the border of armenia and azerbaijan has huge strategic importance. The zangazour carter, also called the nachchivan sunick or megry carter is a proposed transport carder that passes through armenia unic province, linking the public of azerbaijan and the nachchivan autonomous republic. The corridor was conceptualized to pass through the valley of the aras river in the extreme south of armenia, along the border with iran. And to the west, it would continue to turkey which has a short border with nahchivan. To get more information about the significance of seonic, we talk to dr. Ahmad kazemi, an expert on the caucasus region. Dr. Kazemi is also the director of the applied researchers department at the irib. Siyoning as a province of armenia on the province bordering iran, sionic is considered geographical gap between the mainland of. As part of the socalled turkishward, they believe that seonic province has divided the turkish world into two parts, just like dager. Now. Turkey seeks to create ethnic corridor based on the idea of panturkism or pan turanism. It founds to be connected through its own land azerbaijan, the caspiancy and central asia through this corridor. Therefore cionic is considered as the most important obstacle in the formation of the socalled turkish word, can pose many threats to the region and the world, including europe. They are after unique and if they cannot take it through persuasion, they might take it by force which is in the violation of un charter. They might occupy and form the socalled nato. Longest corridor there, currently seonic province is in the frontline preventing the geopolitical sedition pursued by ankaras new amanism doctrine, since armenia and azerbaijan maintain a mutual traffic blocade due to longrunning tensions, bakus connection with nashivan for decades has been iran and the connection with turkey has been georgia. The two countries have different views on the concept of the corridor, its definition, the existence of control. Points and the nationality of the guards who would control those points. Bakuu, for instance, has been asking for an unimped passage without checkpoints and when yeravan refused to do so, it threatened to implement the planned plan unilaterally, meaning through military intervention and occupation of southern armenia, which iran strongly opposes. As for the developments in the caucasus region, the position of these. Republic of iran is fixed, clear position. Iran supports the territorial integrity of the caucasus countries and is against the change of International Borders and wants the rights of minorities, including the armenians of karabakh to be secured. The developments that are taking place in the caucasus today are due to the rumors that the republic of azerbaijan is seeking to seize armenias cionic province. Following this, tehron took a strong position and announced that it is against the change of International Borders, and if this happens, azerbaijan has assured iran that it is not seeking to block the International Borders or change the geographical borders, and during the visit of the iranian minister of Foreign Affairs amir abdullahhon to baku, mr. Elham alief said, i dont even think about this. The Islamic Republic of iran welcomes the interconnection of transport routes in the caucasus and the wider. Region without excluding any of its big or small neighbors, but strongly opposes changes in the status quo. Irans position on the inviolability of existing borders is nothing new, but part of the official principled approach already seen a number of other cases in the region, including egypt, iraq, kuwait, lebanon, oman, qatar, palestine, syria, turkey and yemen. This position did not change regardless of the different status of bilateral relations with the mentioned countries. For the same reasons, iran today maintains good relations with russia, but recognizes the territorial integrity of georgia and ukraine. Azerbaijan is no exception because tehrans unchanging position is that nagornokarabakh is part of azerbaijan which was welcomed and praised by azerbaijans president ilham alief. The idea that attempts to change borders continue in the south caucasus is unacceptable to tehran as it would fan the flames of ravanshis politics, excessive arming and feels new conflicts. Moreover, in the case of another war, irans transportation links with both countries will be cut off and tens of thousands of refugees may flood iran, as was already the case in the first war between azerbaijan and armenia. To tehran, this is another cause for. Iran has always advocated the peaceful reintegration of nagornokarabakh into azerbaijan while respecting the rights of the armenian minority and has carefully avoided escalating tensions or arming any of the two opposing sides. در 26 سال مذاکرات صلح قراباغاییا از جمله in the 26 years of karaaba peace negotiations including the lisman summit in 1996, the issue of autonomy of karabak was raised. And at that time azerbaijan accepted it. Well, now the question is what happened to the rights and security of the armenians . It is clear that after nine months of encirclement of the origin and the closure of lacken corridor, the only corridor of karabak to armenia and the outside world, and the force starvation of the armenians of karabakh by azerbaijan, and after that the start of a large scale military attack, which has been dopped as the operation against terrorists. This situation has caused the armenians to leave the origin because they consider azerbaijan. The cooperation with both countries is focused on the construction of factories, dams, roads and other infrastructure as well as inclusion in International Route to connect with the world. In march last year, iran and azerbaijan signed memorandum of understanding on further development of the existing iranian carter to nahchivan as an alternative to the carter through armenian territory. Another feature of irans approach in the region is the resolution of disputes through the 3 3 format, that is three small countries, armenia, azerbaijan and georgia and three larger countries, iran, russia and present in the region, we must examine them well, iran is actor that has always sought peace, stability and security in the region. What iran has proposed to solve the disputes in the region is the 3 3 framework with the presence of all the countries of the region as well as their neighbors. On the other hand, turkey only supports azerbaijan, the turks are. To create the socalled zangzor corridor. They are supposed to do this by occupying the countrys territory, so turkey is not playing a constructive role in the region. Another actor is georgia, which is not an active actor. Perhaps russia is most important actor in the region and the problem with it is that russia is heavyly involved in the ukraine war. Morover, iran is well aware the decades long british and american plans of merging their sphere of interest. Across the caucases into central asia, which includes the forcible subjegation of all three smaller regional countries and the isolation of iran and russia. در ارتباط بقیه بازیگران منطقه که شماره کردید. In relation to the rest of the actors in the region, americans and europeans are generally not interested in ending this conflict. The reason is that they want russia to be isolated in the caucasus, and if this conflict comes to an end. There will be no reason for them to be present in the caucasus region. A joint military exercise was recently held by the United States and armenia, which we strongly opposed, because iran believes that forces outside the region should not be present in the caucasus. The Israeli Regime is also against peace in the caucasus because it is currently selling weapons to azerbaijan as tensions are rocheting up. As tensions escalate again between azerbaijan and armenia. Irania over the disputed territories, iranian officials have issued multiple warnings that they will not allow any border changes in the caucases. On september 3rd, after a meeting with his turkish counterpart, hakan fidon, Iranian Foreign minister hossain Amir Abdullahyan reiterated tehrans position that it will not tolerate any geopolitical changes in the caucasus region, including the change in borders. Six days later after a phone call. Conversation with armenian Prime Minister nichol pashinyan, iranian president ibrahim raisi said tehran is ready to play an effective role in preventing new clashes and any change of historical borders in the dispute region. In a meeting between iranian leader and turkish president rajab tayib erdoghan on july 19th 2022 Ayatullah Khamenei made it clear that iran would never tolerate any alteration in the border line with armenia. The Islamic Republic of iran has staged several war games in the northwestern tip of the border with armenia and azerbaijan ever since to show that the red line should never be trespassed. ایران مقام معظم رهبری از سال 99. In 2020 the leader of the Islamic Revolution clearly declared that karabag belongs to azerbaijan so they took karabag back and now it is under the rule. Another point as the leadership announced is that the armenians. Believes property and security should be protected. Now almost all of the 120,000 people in that region have completely fled the area. Terrans next red line is that wahabi and takfieri forces should not be around irans border, which is not happened yet, but in any case if karabak is completely under their control, and then they want to come to seonic, iran will react appropriately. Another red line is that the border between iran and armenia should not be. Cut off and according to the leadership, this thousands year old communication route should remain open, which is why iran has given the necessary warnings to azerbaijan and turkey through diplomatic channels. The Islamic Republic has said many times that if their main government is not serious about protecting irans border, the country is fully prepared to rely its own military force, protect the border. Thats all for today, thank you for watching from the whole team, i hope you found this. Condition informative and valuable, please do tune in, same time next week and each week after, dont forget to leave us your comments and topic requests, till next time, take care. From the environment to business and economy, to civil and human rights, to treaties and agreements, to war and conflicts, we bring you the overlooked aspects of world events and news from the farflunged corners of the globe. 10 minutes only on press tv. 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