REVEALING AZERBAIJAN’S TIES WITH THE ZIONIST REGIME; BEGINNING OF CRISIS
Hatamzadeh Moqaddam
Qods website
Nov 3 2011
Mashhad, Iran
Despite the lowering of the level of relations between the countries
in the Central Asian region, the Caucasus, and Asia Minor, with the
regime occupying Jerusalem, during the past few days the military
officials of the Republic of Azerbaijan have spoken about extensive
military relations between that country and the vile Zionist regime.
Although, in view of the conditions in the region and the
intensification of anti-Zionist and anti-American feelings in the
Middle East and Asia Minor, the government in Baku is trying to keep
hidden the details of its military collaboration with the regime
occupying Jerusalem, nevertheless, during the past few days a number
of military officials of that country have unwillingly revealed some
information regarding this issue.
Uzeir Jafarov, the head of the Military Studies Center of the
Republican of Azerbaijan, in an interview with a media outlet
affiliated with the Zionist regime, has spoken of the purchase of
pilotless aircraft [drones] from Israel. These aircraft are not
capable of carrying missiles and can only be used for intelligence
and monitoring purposes.
Another military official of that country has also recently said
that 30 percent of the parts and equipment for those aircraft are
manufactured by “Azerbaijan’s Azad [Free] Systems,” while 70 percent
of the parts of those aircraft will be built by Israeli companies
and will be assembled in the territory of the Republican of Azerbaijan.
The military officials of Ilham Aliyev’s regime have stressed that
Israel plays a major role in modernizing the military, security,
communication, and defense capabilities of the Republican of
Azerbaijan.
This is despite the fact that the Muslim people of that country are
strongly opposed to any form of interaction between their country and
that unbridled regime [Israel]. This is why government officials in
Baku try hard to keep their relations with the Zionist regime hidden.
In view of all this, one can find the reasons for this situation in
two issues:
1- The claims of the regime of the Republican of Azerbaijan regarding
Karabakh, which is a source of disagreement with its neighboring
country, Armenia, have always been condemned by international
organizations, including the Security Council, and Aliyev’s efforts in
this regard have not produced any results. In view of the support of
Israeli officials for the positions of Azerbaijan on the issue, Ilham
Aliyev has leaned more towards that direction, so that by signing
military contracts he can, in his view, achieve a more powerful
position vis-a-vis Armenia.
2- The second issue concerns a matter that is of great importance to
the Zionist regime; namely, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Officials in
Tel Aviv have always tried to establish close relations with Iran’s
neighbors and to incite them to create tension, to undermine the
foreign policy of our country, and to portray the Islamic Republic to
the international community as a country that is full of tension. In
view of the events that have taken place during the current year in
the region, which resulted in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia breaking
off relations with the regime, the Zionists have been drawn towards
rogue dictators such as Ilham Aliyev.
There is no doubt that the contentious action of that country
in connection with martyring some border guards of our country
and engaging in media propaganda following that incident have been
carried out as the result of Zionist incitement and are in line with
the same goals.
In view of all this, one must say that as the result of the repeated
failures of the regime occupying Jerusalem in its foreign policy
and the heightening of public disgust towards that regime, Aliyev’s
government has engaged in a lose-lose game, whose evil consequences
will affect Azerbaijan.
[translated from Persian]