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Yesterday, March 8, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian is a phone conversation had a meeting with the President of Azerbaijan, during which he said that the incident of the airstrike on Nakhichevan has nothing to do with Iran, and emphasized that the incident will be investigated.

Along with all of this, mutual strikes between Iran and Israel continue. Israeli army announced, which strikes the Iranian city of Isfahan, targeting security forces there.

The US and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran on February 28, accusing Tehran of developing its missile and nuclear programs.

What guarantees does Armenia have to protect itself from the threats caused by these actions taking place in Iran? Could there be contradictions between Azerbaijan and Iran?

Azerbaijan affairs expert Tatevik Hayrapetyan according to the assessment, Azerbaijan is trying to present itself as a sovereign, shows its “tooth”, makes certain definitions that are quite sharp, for example, calling the state terrorist, etc. However, according to his assessment, after a certain time these tensions begin to decline, that is, this external manifestation is always there, and there are internal processes.

“Internally, I think that Aliyev depends on the forces fighting against Iran, including Israel, at the same time he has pragmatism, he understands that involving Azerbaijan in such problems is fraught with many dangers, including for his own government. By and large, no one can guarantee the result, as of today, Iran is not in such a situation that Azerbaijan thinks that any of its steps, actions, provocations can have the opposite effect.

I think there is an external component: Aliyev’s connivances, threats, but at the same time, we saw that the same cargo transportation has already been restored. In other words, there is the negotiation component, there are visible and invisible parts, we see the visible parts, which are often tougher, and then we already see a certain regulation of relations.” of 168.am said Tatevik Hayrapetyan in a conversation with

According to the expert, the positions of Iran and Russia in the period of the Artsakh conflict, during the 44-day war of 2020, made Azerbaijan so bold. By and large, they opened “Pandora’s box”, which manifests itself differently in different situations and has already manifested itself.

As for Armenia, Tatevik Hayrapetyan said that all his information is from open sources.

“I used to talk about the threats and dangers coming from Azerbaijan, for example, it happened in the spring of last year, in September 2023, 1-2 months before the war against Artsakh, when the state TV station of Azerbaijan was talking about it in open text. If there is no such information in open sources, I think that such formulations cannot be made.

Of course, there are risks, we live in a world where events develop very quickly, naturally, we have to take all of that into account, the Armenian-hatred propaganda on the part of Azerbaijan has not ended, it is still there. But to say that there is a direct threat or that there will be an attack tomorrow, I certainly cannot say such a thing.

The only guarantee of the security of any state is the priority armed forces, smart diplomacy and trained public. No matter how the superpowers try to create guarantees, at some point they will work, at some point they will change. the interests are changing,” added the expert.

In this context, our interlocutor also emphasized that the Armenian public is vulnerable to various information operations, when there is misinformation, widespread panic begins, which entails serious risks.

“There are two extremes: one extreme is when the government tries to present that everything is wonderful, magnificent, ignoring what is happening in the outside world, and another extreme is when the opposition circles try to present that they will attack Armenia tomorrow. According to me, we should get rid of these two extremes, try to be sober.

Finally, during this period, Arman Tatoyan spoke in the opposition field about the advance of the troops in the summer of the previous year, which was actually not denied. To his credit, I must say that he presented verified information to the public, this is very important for the source to be reliable. “The actual government has hidden the advance of the Azerbaijani armed forces from the public, which once again proves that the processes that they will be withdrawn from our territories are completely false,” Tatevik Hayrapetyan emphasized.

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