MILITARY PROTOCOL SIGNED BETWEEN IRAN AND ARMENIA AN OPEN BETRAYAL TOWARDS AZERBAIJAN -IRANIAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST

"Trend" news agency
09.11.2007 19:44:51

Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. D.Khatinoglu / The military agreement
signed between Iran and Armenia when the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh was raging is not good for Tehran. "The military
protocol signed between Iran and Armenia is an open betrayal against
Azerbaijan," Alireza Nourizadeh, the Iranian political scientist, said.

The military agreement between Iran and Armenia was signed during
the visit of the Iranian Defence Minister, General Mustafa Najar,
to Armenia on 7. The military protocol, signed without regard
to the continued Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, will damage the
Iranian-Azerbaijani relations.

The agreement is not good for Iran, Nourizadeh said to Trend news
agency by the telephone from London on 9 November. Iran does not
differ with professional games among diplomatic ones.

Iran needs in Azerbaijani support in its pro-west policy. The Iranian
President’s visit to Armenia on 22 October was not a deliberate action.

As a result the President had to stop visit and return his country,"
the political scientist said.

According to Nourizadeh, the United States deputy Defence Minister’s
visit to Azerbaijan intended to calm Azerbaijan in its relation
to Iran.

During the United States deputy Defence Minister’s visit to Azerbaijan
he promised defence to Azerbaijan and submitted a security project. The
project was ratified by the Milli Majlis (Azerbaijani Parliament)
after signing the protocol between Iran and Armenia.

"Iran keeps isolating itself unsuccessful and betrayal
diplomacy. Iran as an older brother can settle the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict. However, Iran supports Armenia stirring up the situation,"
the Iranian political scientist said.