Today.Az, Azerbaijan
Nov 28 2008

Eldar Zeynalov: "The Shiite Iran prefers to be friends not with Shiite
Azerbaijan but with Christian Armenia"

28 November 2008 [12:23] – Today.Az

"There is a threat for Azerbaijan from the Iranian side", said head of
the human rights center of Azerbaijan Eldar Zeynalov.

"Iran is united until it has a single ideology", said he and added
that earlier this was the ideology of equality before padishah. Now it
is the idea of Islam.

"If ideas of national enmity are applied there, which is done by
Americans, this will have bloody results. This is separatist. More or
less moderate Azerbaijani nationalists in the south are subjected to
persecution. Iran will fight against them by tougher methods. South
Azerbaijan has raised for revolution for three times in the 20th
century, was thrice suppressed and the world community closed eyes on
it", said Zeynalov.

According to him, Iran is interested in advocating the ideas of
equality, as this terminates nationalistic propaganda for separation
of South Azerbaijan. On this basis Iranians have been friends with
Armenia since the 1990s.

"Armenia survives owing to Iran, as it has no common borders with
Russia. All common borders, it has, are either hostile or
moderate-hostile states, like Georgia.

He said the only friendly country for Christian Armenia is Shiite
Iran. "It prefers to be friends not with Shiite Azerbaijan but with
Christian Armenia, because there are definite geopolitical interests",
concluded Zeynalov.

/Day.Az/

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