Anti-Turkey Statements In Iran – Part III: Erdoğan Is Undermining Iran s Territorial Integrity
January 11, 2021 | By A. Savyon and M. Manzour
Introduction
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked rage in Iran recently by quoting a popular Azeri poem; his recitation was perceived in Iran as an insult and a provocation against Iran s sovereignty and territorial integrity. On December 10, during his participation in the Azerbaijan victory celebrations over the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia, he recited, in Turkish, a line from the Azeri poem Aras : They tore the Aras [River] and filled it with rocks and sticks / I will not be separated from you. They have separated us forcibly, he said. The poem laments the division of the Azeri provinces between the Persian Qajar Empire and Czarist Russia in the early 19th century. Areas of the Caucasus that are today part of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia belonged to the Qajar Persian Empire, and following its defeats
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The Khoda-Afarin bridges seen from Iran. Photo: Koorosh Nozad Tehrani flickr.com
On November 10th, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire agreement that ended a six-week war over territories claimed by both sides.
The war resulted in a clear victory for Azerbaijan.
Under the Russian-brokered agreement, most of the territory that Armenia captured during the previous war in the 1990s was returned to Azerbaijan by November 25th.
The original source of the conflict, the
Armenian enclave of Karabakh, was handed over to Russian peacekeepers.
As of writing, its future is yet to be determined.
The three regional powers
The biggest regional winners were Russia,