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Azerbaijan Army aviation Mi-35M and Mi-17 choppers during joint exercise in Turkey
Some random shots of the general activities of the armed forces
May 9 Victory Day celebrations and President Aliyev and his first lady's meeting with last living WWII veterans who fought on Soviet side
Some random shots of the general activities of the armed forces
May 9 Victory Day celebrations and President Aliyev and his first lady's meeting with last living WWII veterans who fought on Soviet side
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I think I've seen (possibly I'm wrong) some images of the Shah of Iran celebrating independence or a holiday with Azerbaijan, am I right or is it another country?
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There is an Azerbaijan as a country AND there is an Iranian Azerbaijan region composed of four provinces.
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Quiet right. Its also known as "Southern Azerbajan" and was and independent country in 1900s for a short period of time. Currently around 15 millions of Azeris are living in that particular region of Iran and they have been the top one security problem between these two countries (Azerbaijan and Iran). Therefore Israel is selling so many complex weaons to Azerbaijan, simply to promote local border diputes and Azerbaijani population to decentralize Iran.
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Could it be said then that Iran annexed that part of Azerbaijan and that was the celebration I saw with the Shah? interesting story, I did not know that, thanks!
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I beg to differ. Nothing to do with Iran. Azerbaijan is locked in a conflict with Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh region. Armenia is backed politically by Russia, the country that also sells weapons to Azerbaijan, but has less of a political influence over its oil-rich neighbor. Armenian diaspora is also very influential, especially in France and the USA, Hence, Azerbaijan in the late-90s found itself under de facto arms embrago. The only country (besides Turkey) who would sell weapons to Azerbaijan. At that time period, Israel was also pressed for hard currency, oil supplies. AND had very close ties to Azerbaijan because Jews and Muslims enjoyed a very warm relationship during the Soviet era. At that point time, Iranian issue wasn't part of the equation, not sure even if it's now.
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Nope. The modern borders were set as results of the Russian empire military victories over the Persian empire in the early-19th century.
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Yes. Armenia is the most well known aspect but the one fact you are neglected is the unbalanced military strenght comparison between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is maintaining so many advanced weapons that they do not need to use in case of a conflict with Armenia. Look at their purchases such as the SOM stand-off cruise missiles and LORA ballistic missiles that have 250-300 km operational range but they already have systems enough to hit any points precisely in Armenia (around 80 km). Same as the air defence missiles, right now they are maintaining S-300 PMU-2 Favorit, Barak-8, Buk-M2E, TOR-E2 and modernized S-125 dvina SAMs which are easily cover the airspace the whole Caucasus region in combination.
Nagarno-Karabakh is the most publicly active border dispute in Azerbaijan politics. But basically Russia has its own dominiance and military bases in Armenia. They are even protecting Armenian airspece with their own MiG-29s located at the Gymri base in Armenia. And also you have to take into consideration that currently Azerbaijan is the biggest Russian arms buyer in the region. So they are not even think the confront Armenia over Nagarn-Karabakh, at least with the current Aliyev regime and political tradition they have and also with the Russia as a highly active major power in the region. They are just utilizing Nagarno-Karabakh just enough to gain trust and create a public unity to cure highly fragmented social shape of the post-Soviet Azeri nation.
And lastly the weapons ambargo is possessed after the Nagorno-Karabakh War of 1992 on both sides, not only for Azerbajian. For the Europe they had concerns on that, but France currenty tries to take into part of Azeri arms sales. Like around 3-4 mnts ago they offered them Gowind-2500 corvettes with Thales Smart-S 3D radar, Exocet and Aster-15 missiles.
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@TIGREDELAIRE ,@berkut76 & @DENO , this would seem to be an excellent issue for discussion and if you wish I will create a thread for it but we need to keep THIS thread on track as a photo thread
Cheers and beers
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I do not think it's necessary, @BravoZulu it was just a question I had about a video that I saw of the Shah of Iran in a celebration, it caused some doubt but the friends @berkut76 and @DENO already solved it, thanks anyway!
Cheers and Beers too!
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south is bigger than north!
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