If suddenly Nikol Pashinyan is re-elected, we will lose Armenia, and that is a very real danger. About this 168 TVof Revue said on the air of the program the poet Marine Petrosyancalling on people most importantly to go to the polls on June 7 and choose one of the opposition forces that have real chances to win.

“The victory of the opposition is very real, let me tell you. We have the bitter experience of the 2021 elections. We sinned then. I did not choose, but if the people chose, I say we. If we did not elect Nikol again in 2021, we probably would not have lost Artsakh, but if suddenly Nikol is elected again this time, we will lose Armenia. It is a very real danger, it is not an exaggeration,” said Marine Petrosyan.

The poet drew attention to the fact that Nikol Pashinyan, who had accused the Artsakh citizen of repeating Azerbaijani narratives the previous day, openly repeated Azerbaijani narratives during the campaign in Spitak yesterday, declaring the following. “Now in the Republic of Armenia, 90 percent are Armenians, never before were 90 percent Armenians.”

Marine Petrosyan sees a very clear danger of advancing the Azerbaijani line in the footnote of this speech. “It is Azerbaijan’s plan. It cannot be a coincidence. He is leading the line of Azerbaijan. What does this mean? I don’t know the reason: they scared me, they were interested in what they did. I don’t know the “internal kitchen”, but it is a fact, that’s why I say: electing Nikol means the end of Armenia, the actual dissolution of Armenia. They say don’t exaggerate. I am not exaggerating.

If you advance the thesis that Azerbaijanis lived in these areas, it is the central thesis of Azerbaijan, and if the candidate who wants to be elected as the Prime Minister of Armenia again advances this thesis, it means that he is serving the agenda of Azerbaijan itself. Nikol Pashinyan is implementing a plan»։

As an active participant of the 1988 Artsakh movement, Marine Petrosyan also responded to Pashinyan’s attempts to falsify the history of the Artsakh issue. “He cunningly uses a lie for this: he opposes the independence of Armenia to the Karabakh movement. That is the biggest lie… The Artsakh movement was an attempt to get out of humiliation, which succeeded. You are destroying the independence of Armenia, the Republic of Armenia»։

According to Marine Petrosyan, the Armenian society, the people, is under a psychological attack today, and in these conditions of information war and media terror, it is extremely difficult for the people to find the right direction.

“Let’s focus on the positive. If we managed to oust Nikol Pashinyan in these elections, and something new begins, how much excitement will arise and a new page will be opened. It is a really difficult task, but it is doable. We must realize that this is not an ordinary election, this is a great test. We lost the war, we lost Artsakh, but this is an opportunity… Of course, this is not a war, but it is something like a war. This is a moral test. For me, this is in the moral field.

This is an attack on us. they are trying to manipulate us. If we can endure it and if we can win these elections, the Armenian nation will show that its backbone is not broken, then a way will be opened for us. This can be a moral victory for us. Let’s take that victory because defeat is not a good thing. This is a moral battle for us,” the poet added.

Full interview in the video.

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During the pre-election campaign, Nikol Pashinyan put forward “historical” theses about the number of Armenians, claiming: “There was no state in the territory of today’s Armenia from 1045 to 1918, people. There was no Armenian state. Can you imagine, after the fall of the Bagratun kingdom, there was no Armenian state in the territory of today’s Armenia, there were Mongol-Tatars, they came, they left, they migrated, they got mixed up, we migrated, etc., etc. But there have been states in this area, no state has ever existed in this area.

There were states here, but not Armenian states. 1000 years, can you imagine what that is? If we have to return to some place, we provoke that place so that they also say: we are also returning here. Because it’s a fact, we can’t say… In the Republic of Armenia, 90 percent are Armenians. Never before were 90 percent Armenians.”

Let’s remind that in February 2020, within the framework of the Munich Security Conference to the discussion entitled “Update on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue”. Nikol Pashinyan, responding to the statement of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev that “Nagorno Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan, it is a historical fact”. had noted.

“I would advise President Aliyev not to go so far into history. Because when the Armenian king Tigran the Great was negotiating with the Roman military leader Pompey, there was no state in the South Caucasus and in the whole world that was called Azerbaijan. So I don’t think it’s the right approach to go that far, because I can go even further and start, for example, in BC. 405, but I won’t do it because I don’t think it’s the right approach.”

Then he continued.

“Mr. President, it was not very constructive, but I will say that In the time of Tigran the Great, there were only two nations in our region: Armenians and Georgians. And not only in the times of Tigran the Great, but also in the times of Bagratunis and Arshakunis. It can be found in any history book.”

Of course, here we do not forget the historical “myths” of journalist Pashinyan, critical articles, and the following thought written many years ago:

“I am surprised that there are still people in our country who have illusions about the occupied, if you like, liberated, if you like, occupied territories. I do not accept the view that or good diplomacy can prevent these territories from being returned to Azerbaijan.

… After all, this country has no owner, and we, who are supposed to be the owners of this country, want to be owners of someone else, leaving our own. Or, in our case, it is more correct to say that we don’t want someone else to own it. And, really, why should the 7 regions of Azerbaijan be ours, to sell a few general railway rails to Iranians, to destroy nature and export them as logs, to demolish factories and sell them? People tell legends from the gardens and fruits of Zangelan and Fizuli. Where was that fruit, did anyone in Armenia see it from the “liberation” of those territories?“after…”.

We all saw what happened after the change of power in 2018. At first, Pashinyan announced, “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it”, then he announced that he would not hand over the regions on the negotiation table, lest they say he was a traitor, even though he thought the same as in the article mentioned above. Well, then the 44-day war began, and we lost more territory than was on the negotiating table. And it turned out that Azerbaijan benefited more than all this. In other words, Pashinyan’s claim that he had a revival as a result of 2020 is a normal manipulation. he has always thought the way he is already openly talking about today, denying Aliyev the opportunity to hire scientists to falsify history and turn it in his favor.

We will not address Pashinyan’s past and present historical claims now, we will leave it to the historians, why not his teammate, the historian-minister of defense Suren Papikyan, who used to teach his students very correctly, who are the Azerbaijanis, or, as he called it, the Caucasian Tatars, how they penetrated into our region.

As for “In the Republic of Armenia now, 90 percent are Armenians, never before were 90 percent Armenians while these experts have already proven this to be untrue.

Available with information During the last census conducted in the USSR, in 1989, the number of Armenians living in the territory of the ASSR was more than the figure he said: 93.3 percent. Before that, a census was conducted in the USSR in 1979, and during that census it was found that the number of Armenians in the territory of the USSR was 89.7 percent.

Aniarc.amstudies have shown that if in 1931 Soviet Armenia had a population of a little more than 1 million, then in 1989 – 3.4 million.

In this context, let us recall that after the 44-day war, Nikol Pashinyan several times stated that Before the conflict and liberation, Shushi had 90 percent or more Azerbaijani population.

We in response: we presented evidence the number of Armenians in Shushi at different times and as a result of which the number of Azerbaijanis gradually increased, this fact cannot be ignored.

For example, different with information In 1886, the population of the city of Shushi 56.7 percent were Armenians, 43.3 percent – the Tatars. Already 1926The number of Armenians in the city of Shushi is 1.8 percent, Turks: 96 percent.

Let’s remind that In 1920 march 23-26-The armed units of Azerbaijan, together with the Shushi Tatar guerrilla groups, organized and carried out the massacre of the local Armenian population. massacre. Various sources mention up to 8-10 thousand killed. Naturally, this has led to depopulation.

However, in Hadrut region, according to different reports, in 1939 Armenians made up the population 95.7 percent, Azerbaijanis 2.7, 1959The number of Armenians living here has reached 93.3 percent, Azerbaijanis: 6.1 percent.

1970The number of Armenians decreased by several percent in 87.5, Azerbaijanis – increased10.4. And already in 1979 according to this data, Armenians made up the population of Hadrut region 84.4 percent, Azerbaijanis 15.1: That’s about it.

However, in this context, it is necessary to remind that after the first Artsakh war, Baku from all international platforms announced of more than 1 million refugees and forcibly displaced people.

6 years have passed since the 44-day war, as a result of which significant areas of Artsakh came under the control of Azerbaijan, and it has been almost 3 years since Artsakh has been completely depopulated, but recently the president of Azerbaijan to announce, which resettled another 85,000 people, possibly less than that.

According to Azerbaijani sources, many of the settlers want to return to Baku, where they have lived for 30 years.

And yesterday the Armenian media? reported Aliyev’s aide stated: “300,000 Azerbaijanis were deported from Armenia.”

Actually not so much no to be told

“Azerbaijan provided housing to around 300,000 internally displaced persons who suffered as a result of the conflict and the “occupation” of the country’s territories. During that period, the Government of Azerbaijan provided all possible support to IDPs and refugees by providing them with housing, affordable food and other social services. The main demand of these people was the return to their native lands and the opportunity to live there in safe and dignified conditions,” he said.

The fact that Baku has not abandoned the “Western Azerbaijan” state political program is indisputable, moreover, it does not consider it as a mirror response to some statements made in RA, but considers the return of Azerbaijani refugees purely in the context of human rights.

In February of this year 168.am– was an article with the caption “Aliyev’s dangerous and cunning proposal to Pashinyan”. to publish where some nuances are mentioned.

However, no matter how much the thesis of “300,000 Azerbaijanis” is spread by various circles, including Azerbaijani ones, we should emphasize the following: where did that number come from, are there so many Azerbaijanis living in RA, because it is probably far from reality. And for this very reason, their return should also be considered impossible, should be flexible and reasoned, not to allow both the authorities and Baku the opportunity to maneuver and catch lies. And no matter how much the RA authorities say that we should forget about Armenian refugees, at the right moment we should discuss the number of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, the number of forcibly displaced people from Artsakh, and remind us of the Azerbaijani thesis in the past. of more than 1 million refugees.

By the way, according to different calculations, even the 20 percent number of “occupied territories” was disputed.

And Nikol Pashinyan will continue to help Azerbaijan to save financial resources in hiring foreign scientists.

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After his visit to China, US President Donald Trump renewed threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran. While Russian President Vladimir Putin is in China after Trump’s visit to China, and while the Russia-China-US triad is trying to reach new geopolitical positions, US President Donald Trump says that the United States may strike Iran again in the coming days if diplomatic efforts do not lead to an agreement with Tehran.

Trump said earlier that the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had asked him to delay the attack, insisting that an agreement would be reached that would be “very acceptable” to the United States. The head of the White House informed that there was one hour left before authorizing a new attack against Iran, when he decided to postpone it.

When asked how much time he is giving Iran to reach an agreement, the president answered: “two or three days”. “Maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday, maybe next weekend,” Trump said, adding that time is limited because “we cannot allow them [Iran] to have nuclear weapons.” “I hope we won’t start a war, but we might have to give them another big blow. I’m not sure yet,” President Trump told reporters at the White House.

US Vice President J. D. Vance has also stated that the country’s army is in a state of high combat readiness, and the United States will not conclude such a deal with Iran that would allow the country to have nuclear weapons. According to Vance, the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran will involve the region in an arms race, which will make the world less safe. Vice President Vance assured that Washington continues to make efforts to conclude a deal with Tehran, adding, however, that “it takes two people to dance the tango.”

Referring to the stalled US-Iran talks, Vance spoke of “great progress”, adding that according to Washington, Tehran also wants to make a deal. The vice-president emphasized that the option of resuming military operations “to achieve the goals of the United States” remains, at the same time adding that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, does not want it.

Iranian “Fars” state agency published a list of five US demands on May 17, which it claims Washington presented to Tehran ahead of the second round of peace talks.

According to “Fars” data, Washington refuses to pay any compensation to Tehran for the damages caused during the war started by the USA and Israel on February 28. The US also intends to withdraw 400 kg of enriched uranium from Iran and agrees to operate only one complex of nuclear facilities in that country. In addition, the administration of President Donald Trump does not agree to the unfreezing of “even 25%” of Iran’s frozen assets, and the cessation of war is directly linked to the progress of negotiations.

According to the Iranian authorities, by proposing such conditions, the United States is trying to achieve the goals it failed to achieve during the war. They also point out that the “threat of aggression” by the USA and Israel will remain even if the presented demands are fulfilled. In this regard, the “Mehr” agency, sponsored by the Iranian authorities, reported on the “dead end” in the negotiations.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps also warned that if the United States and Israel resume attacks against Iran, the war in the Middle East will spread beyond the region. “If the aggression against Iran is repeated, the promised regional war will spread far beyond the region this time, and our devastating strikes will crush you,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement published on the Sepah News website.

This warning came after US President Donald Trump announced that Washington could strike Iran again if an agreement on a long-term settlement is not signed in the coming days. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in X that “a return to war will bring many more surprises.”

Iranian media sources reported that Pakistan’s interior minister is traveling to Tehran to hold talks with Iranian officials.

No other details were released. Earlier, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran announced that the process of negotiations with the mediation of Pakistan is continuing. Reuters also wrote that Pakistan has forwarded to the United States a revised proposal by Iran to end the conflict in the Middle East.

Russian orientalist Viktor Nadein-Raevsky 168.amtold that immediately after Donald Trump’s visit to China, the revival of the Iranian agenda and the sharp tightening of rhetoric cannot be considered a coincidence. According to him, the negotiations held in Beijing most likely gave the White House clarity on a key issue. China, despite its deep economic ties with Tehran, is not ready to go to a global confrontation with Washington for the sake of saving Iran.

The analyst believes that the five tough demands put forward by the US, including the export of enriched uranium and maintaining a freeze on financial assets, prove that Washington intends to capitalize on the outcome of the war with an absolute capitulation agreement.

“Trump’s two-three day ultimatum is nothing more than a psychological attack on Iran’s political leadership.” Iran will not accept this. One of the possible scenarios is the resumption of targeted strikes against Iran, if the Pakistani mediation fails. The IRGC’s warning that the war will go beyond the borders of the region shows that Tehran is ready to go for an “asymmetric escalation”, putting US allies and energy hubs in the Persian Gulf under attack,” the analyst said.

He believes that in the context of these geopolitical upheavals, the South Caucasus is under direct attack, as the region borders Iran and is of vital importance to all parties. The new round of military operations against Iran can destabilize the situation in the South Caucasus in political and other aspects.

In addition, the escalation of the Iran-US war may also affect the “North-South” transport corridor, increasing the influence of the West and Israel in the region, which, in turn, will force Russia, despite its current preoccupation, to take drastic countermeasures in order not to lose its positions in the South Caucasus. This warming will also delay some US-brokered projects in the South Caucasus.

Ultimately, the future development of events depends on how effective Pakistan’s mediation mission will be and whether Iran’s revised offer will contain concessions that Trump will be able to present as his own “big win.”

J.D. Vance’s latest statement suggests that Washington is still leaving open the way for a diplomatic retreat: the parties may reach a temporary tactical ceasefire, but the deep-rooted causes of the conflict and the strategic goal of the US-Israel axis, to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, will maintain the riskiness of the situation in the long run,” said Victor Nadein-Raevsky.

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