Posted on 03/13/2012 3:29:47 AM PDT by tobyhill
Iran is confident that neighboring Azerbaijan would not allow attacking forces to pass through its territory, Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency.
Ahmadinejad told visiting Azerbaijan Defense Minister Gen. Safar Abiyev, We are sure that no problem will take place against Iran from (the land of) our friend and brother, Azerbaijan.
Earlier, Abiyev, told reporters Azerbaijan will not act against great Iran or allow an attack using its territory. This came after he met his Iranian counterpart, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi.
Ahmadinejad said, Joint enemies of the two countries seek to stop improvement relations between Tehran and Baku, Azerbaijans capital. He did not elaborate.
On February 29, Israel signed a $1.6 billion deal to sell drones, anti-aircraft and missile defense systems to Azerbaijan, bringing Israeli technology to the border of archenemy Iran.
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I suppose the vaunted fearful strong military forces of Aberzaijan would be able to repel any intruder. They probably are real good at oppressing their unarmed population and that’s it.
Mr. Ahmadinejad is really doing some very potent recreational pharmaceuticals in his Tehran office to get hallucinations like this.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NB15Ak04.html
Israel is reportedly using Azerbaijan as a “watchover” playground against Iran, but in light of Iran’s summoning of Baku’s envoy to Tehran and Israeli accusations that Iran is behind a car bomb found near the Israeli Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Monday, it is fair to say that we are witnessing an extension of the Iran-Israel conflict into the Caspian-South Caucasus.
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