“The people have been deceived for 7 years. Let’s hope that they will finally wake up, because if they don’t, we will no longer have a homeland.” 168TV “Review” said during the program Editor-in-chief of “California Courier” newspaper, American-Armenian figure Harut Sassounyan։

He referred to the annual report published by the United States Intelligence Service, where it is recorded that there are still obstacles on the way to concluding a final peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, directly citing Azerbaijan’s demand to change the Constitution. The report emphasizes that the adoption of the Constitution is not guaranteed, as a referendum has yet to be held in Armenia.

“The United States does not encourage the people to speak out, but is afraid that if the people do speak out, it can hinder Pashinyan’s re-election, that referendum, and in general, Pashinyan will come out of this process with a very bad defeat. The Prime Minister does everything for the benefit of Azerbaijan, Turkey, Europe, but never for the benefit of Armenia,” Harut Sasunyan emphasized.

He emphasized that there has never been such a peace in the history of the world, that the leaders of two countries declared that they have peace when one country occupied the land of the other, tried with a false trial and sentenced the citizens of the other country from 20 years to life. “This is another lie of Pashinyan who brought peace and is trying to scare the people once again that if he is not re-elected, there will be a war. Aliyev and Pashinyan are doing the same thing, they both threaten the Armenian people.”

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Edgar Ghazaryan and Davit Sargsyan of the “Erku front” podcast in the next edition, they discuss the financial, moral and political support of the European Union to this administration in the run-up to the upcoming national elections, under the name of fighting against fictitious “hybrid threats”, the silencing and isolation of political opponents, as well as the legal arbitrariness rampant in Armenia under the conditions of European compromise.

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“The war against Iran will continue for several weeks, the United States will try to find ways to turn the course of the war in favor of the United States and Israel, for which they should try to find an opportunity for a ground operation in the region.” 168.amexpressed a similar opinion in the conversation with Russian orientalist Viktor Nadein-Raevskyreferring to the global war against Iran unfolding in Armenia’s immediate neighborhood.

He believes that at this moment a difficult situation has arisen for the United States, because only the air force could not carry out a short-term operation and achieve the goals set before the United States, nor does extending the situation solve the problem of the United States by imposing US conditions on Iran.

According to him, the opposite is happening when Iran starts to hit the energy infrastructures in Israel, Qatar, UAE, closes the Strait of Hormuz, creating serious economic problems for the Trump administration, as well as accumulating both internal political dissatisfaction and external contradictions, particularly from Europe, which is the first to bear the consequences of this war and expensive energy carriers.

According to the analyst, maybe in the USA they will think about concentrating ground forces in the direction of Iran, but it is connected with too much resources due to the remoteness of the region.

“Also, according to some data, this war is very costly for the USA. Ahead of the pre-election campaign of the US President’s team, the course of such a war is very dangerous, because failures and miscalculations, spending millions of dollars only accumulate dissatisfaction within the country. But with all this, I don’t see a chance for Trump to back down, even though the statements sometimes give such an impression.

I am more inclined to think that he will try to use land opportunities to wage war against Iran, we are talking about the Kurds and the Azerbaijanis of Iran. However, here too, in my opinion, it will not succeed, because the Shia faith has a different system, in the current situation they mobilize differently, so hopes like the US will not be justified either. But it is certain that Iran’s opponents will try to involve as many countries as possible in all this, including Azerbaijan. We have already seen such an experience with the Nakhijevan incident. In other words, they will use all possible methods.

The fact that Israel is not inclined to negotiate with Iran and pushes the USA to the scenario of a long war, because it alone cannot face Iran for a long time, adds to all this tension,” he said.

The expert drew attention to the resignation and statements of the director of the US National Anti-Terrorism Center, Joseph Kent.

Nadein-Raevsky believes that many people in the United States understand that this is not the war of the United States and that only Israel needs this.

“Therefore, the USA seems to be in a trap, it is a rather complicated mosaic for the USA,” he said.

He expresses his surprise regarding the statements of US President Trump that the people of Iran should elect a leader who will have the approval of the US. “In the USA, they really think that Iran is Venezuela. In the US, they don’t know what Shia Islam is, what system the Islamic Republic of Iran lives in, and how leaders are elected, in this case, the supreme spiritual leader. Everything can be announced in this way, but they will never come true,” said Victor Nadein-Raevsky.

Speaking about the South Caucasus, he said that the main danger in the South Caucasus is that the USA and Israel will try or are trying to use the neighborhood, particularly Azerbaijan, in the war against Iran.

According to him, if something like this happens, it will be a dramatic event for the region.

“Why dramatic, because Iran regularly warns Azerbaijan?” And since the beginning of this war, the attacks on the American bases in the Persian Gulf and not only on the bases are worrying not only for the region, but also for the whole world. Therefore, the involvement of the South Caucasus in any way will expand the geography of the war, because Iran is determined and is fighting this war as the last war. Armenia, for its part, tries to maintain great neutrality, although, I think, Iran expects support from partner countries, but taking into account the recent relations between Armenia and the USA, I think it is naive to expect something like this,” said Victor Nadein-Raevsky.

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Arman Tatoyan, head of the “Wings of Unity” political initiative, writes. “Nikol Pashinyan is playing on the fear of mothers. I understand and respect the fear of our mothers. Armenian mothers have the right to be afraid.

That is why I say what I see. Nikol Pashinyan uses the fear of our mothers as an election tool.

But he does it not to protect mothers, not for the sake of our 18-19-year-old youth, but for his own reproduction. These are different things.

In fact, the real security threat exists, and its real source is not [only] the change of the prime minister, but the lack of legal guarantees, the unfulfilled decisions of international courts, the failure to follow them, as well as the agreements kept secret from one’s own citizens.

I have recorded the same thing for years as a human rights defender. fear is used to inhibit decision-making. This is not a personal, but a systemic problem.

Security is not one person and that one person’s rule. They are international mechanisms, treaties, parliamentary control, etc.
Armenia is a member of the UN International Court of Justice. The court decision is a document. I know how it works and how to get it done, but today it’s not happening.

The Armenian people do not deserve threats, but explanations. And not promises, but reasonable solutions that we will give.
We will give both explanations and solutions, not fears, but faith, relying on common sense, law, international mechanisms and the support of our friends.”

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RPA GM member Artak Zakaryan writes. “Why does Nikol Pashinyan constantly think that he can deceive the Armenian people whenever he wants, how he wants, as much as he wants?

Why does it seem to Nikol Pashinyan that he can endlessly say one thing, do the complete opposite, and people are obliged to believe his destructive fairy tale?

Why today, no head of state trusts the statements of another state and looks for real guarantees, while Nikol Pashinyan “forces” the citizens of Armenia to believe in Ilham Aliyev’s bare words or a piece of paper.

Why does Donald Trump doubt and mistrust his NATO allies, while Nikol Pashinyan trusts Ilham Aliyev unconditionally?

Why does Nikol Pashinyan, who lost four losing wars during his rule, think that he will bring “peace” and the opposition will bring war?

Why does Nikol Pashinyan think that propaganda can turn a representative of any nation into a mankurt, forcing him to forget his homeland, past, history, national dignity, sanctities, victories, spiritual heritage and identity?

In general, why does he think that people today have forgotten what he said yesterday?

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Nikol Pashinyan threatens and blackmails the voters with his statements about the war. It is a threat, blackmail, if you will, violence against the free expression of voters. This is how he commented 168 TVof Revue on the air of the program political scientist Edgar Elbakyan Yesterday’s celebrity of Nikol Pashinyan the statement about the “September War”.

The political scientist emphasizes that it is the duty of every government, first of all, to ensure democratic, free and fair elections, rather than trying to be re-elected at any cost. Continuing his thought, Edgar Elbakyan also emphasizes that the duty of the government and power bodies is to face external threats and neutralize them, not to scare their own people with war.

Taking into account the prospect of creating a European “hybrid nation” under these conditions, especially in Armenia, the political scientist suggests to fix from now on that the elections are already rigged. But it is also an addition: if the elections are really fair, these authorities will not be re-elected.

“It’s not information, it’s a threat, blackmail, if you like, violence against the will of the voters. In general, it is the duty of any government, if it is a democratic country and the government is formed in that country through elections, to provide such conditions that people can express their will freely. If, on the contrary, being in power, you are interested in people being in such a situation, and such a situation is the threat of force from Azerbaijan, and they make an election under those conditions, then let’s record from the beginning that the elections are already rigged, like the 2021 elections.

I am now speaking on my own behalf as a political scientist, and I emphasize this because the results of the 2021 elections were finally accepted in a big sense, in a political sense,” commented the political scientist.

Edgar Elbakyan recalls the well-known events of February 2021 in Armenia, and in particular, the statement of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces led by Colonel-General Onik Gasparyan demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Government.

“Yes, the opposition presented some complaints to the courts, etc., but in a political sense, those results were accepted. There is no problem, maybe it was true, but I don’t accept it, because a few months before those elections, the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces issued a statement that these authorities are not capable of ensuring the country’s security, and Turkey intervened in our internal affairs there, making it clear that “I will do a lot of things if there is a change of power.” That’s why the 2021 elections weren’t really fair, and these aren’t fair either, if it’s going to go at this pace, and life shows that it’s going to go at this pace, people will have to be threatened. Let’s fix from Himikvan that these are unfair competitive conditions from the beginning.”։

According to the political scientist, we all understand that war is possible at any time, but the probability is much higher under the current rulers։

“He created the precedents, he treats Armenia as he would treat a hostile country, he uses, so to speak, a “scorched earth” tactic, when you retreat from some lands, it remains behind you, but you burn it completely, poison the wells, burn the fields, cut down the fruit trees, so that whoever comes after you will be a “Pyrrhic victory”.

He himself places all those “mines” under Armenia, so that even if someone comes after him or has ambitions to come after him, they will think for a while that this person is committed to, for example, establishing 300,000 Turks, the Ramilsafarovs, in Armenia. I have almost no doubt that there were also pre-negotiations on that topic, but they agreed to deal with it after the elections. Now some oppositionist will think. “Okay, I’ll come and tell you that I don’t do them. Well, I have to say it, because doing it is suicide, and the Turks say that’s why we attack. Well, they are attacking, at least we will defend ourselves, but how can we defend ourselves if they destroyed the army as well?

In other words, he consciously “burns” the Armenian land left after him, uses “scorched earth” tactics, so that he can stand up and say: “I am your peace,” this is how the political scientist explains Pashinyan’s policy.

According to Edgar Elbakyan, “starting from 2020, we are making daily elections”, and on June 7, we are dealing not with another election and internal political struggle, but with a national-liberation struggle and the dilemma of Armenia’s existence or not. According to his interpretation, if the events proceed in a pessimistic scenario and Pashinyan is re-elected with violations, then everything will depend on how quickly and with what quality all kinds of national, public, political, and spiritual subjects will find the strength to continue the struggle, understanding that it is long-lasting. In this sense, Elbakyan considers unity of national forces and not making mistakes to be key.

“That “quick response” “hybrid” is a structure with a mandate, the leadership of Armenia invited them. They will collect a set of cases, they will announce that “we saw a fake page on Facebook, it said: vote for this person, it is a fake page, and the Facebook settings show that they are operating from Russia”, they will collect several such anecdotal cases, both scandalous, accompanied by “mask-shows”, for example, a person will be caught at the airport and they will say: “You are an agent, You have come to a choice. We didn’t understand, isn’t that person a citizen of Armenia? Deprive them of their citizenship, like the people of Artsakh, bring them, fill the country with Turks, and we will survive. And on the basis of this, they will say that “foreign intervention has taken place”, and they will already have freedom of action to commit any illegality, to arbitrarily appoint a second round or invalidate the results. The risks are very serious, and if the national forces and the opposition forces are to go to these developments divided, fragmented and internally hostile, they may not go, because there is not at all exhaustive, nor ideal, but one optimal solution against this repressive machine – unity,” Elbakyan believes.

According to the political scientist, the agenda of Pashinyan’s government is not peace, but “the vision of the death of Armenia”.

“When you say alternative program of the opposition, it implies that the government has its own vision of peace. The government does not have a vision of peace, the government has a vision of the death of Armenia, which it presents as peaceful,” Edgar Elbakyan believes.

Talking about the topic of comparing the ideas of anti-Russianness and anti-Turkishness in the Armenian reality, political scientist Edgar Elbakyan notes that anti-Russianness as a sentiment in Armenia has a long history, starting from the second half of the 19th century, parallel to the general national awakening of the Armenians, while systematic anti-Turkishness has unfortunately not occurred in recent decades in newly independent Armenia.

“For example, I and other scientists known to me have not found the origin of the expression “Armenia without Armenians”. We never found it, but instead we found that at the end of the 19th century, at the beginning of the 20th century, there was already that reference among Armenians, that the viceroy said: “Armenia without Armenians”, and many, many other things have a history of many centuries. In the last years of independence, anti-Turkey was never practiced systematically, anti-Russian was practiced by the West and partly by Turkey. Anti-Turkey was not systemic. As a general meta-level sentiment, it has existed among the people, Turk is even an offensive word, but it has never existed in a political sense,” says the political scientist.

Let’s remind that yesterday, March 19, after the regular session of the Government, in a briefing with journalists, Nikol Pashinyan once again addressed the opposition forces. called “war party”, declaring that “the forces acting from the positions of peace revision are preparing a new September war with grave consequences”. Pashinyan’s statement received a wide reaction and opposition among the Armenian opposition. In particular, MP Kristine Vardanyan of the NA opposition faction “Armenia” with the “Review” program in the interview countered him, saying that the “party of war” in Armenia is represented by Nikol Pashinyan, and Nikol Pashinyan is the leader whose rule has seen the most wars and attacks against Armenia. Ishkhan Saghatelyan, representative of the Supreme Body of the ARF Armenia, in response to Pashinyan’s stated: “Nikol, you are the symbol of defeat, war, betrayal.”

Full interview in the video.

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