YEREVAN TO CARRY OUT STEPS TOWARDS CREATION OF GEOPOLITICAL SQUARE

news.az
Jan 14 2010
Azerbaijan

Heydar Jamal "Official Yerevan will undertake steps towards the
creation of the Armenia-Iran-Turkey-Russia geopolitical square.

Turkey would also benefit from normalization of the Turkish-Armenian
relations", said Heydar Jamal, chairman of the Islamic Committee of
Russia and famous political scientist.

He said by means of normalizing relations with Armenia, Turkey is
lifting several issues, primarily the mythical "armenian genocide",
creating obstacles on the way of its EU accession. Naturally,
normalization of the Turkish-Armenian relations is not profitable
for Azerbaijan.

"I think the improvement of relations with Iran despite West’s
pressure on this country is the only open way for Azerbaijan on the
existing background. If Iran improves relations with Turkey that
is a traditional partner of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan needs to improve
relations with the traditional partner of Armenia-Iran.

This is primarily the lever of pressure on the West because the United
States has set a task of geopolitical surrounding of Iran. This task
has already been put under threat, because Turkey has launched active
cooperation with Iran while Armenia is Iran’s traditional ally in our
region. If Azerbaijan also starts cooperating with Iran, the process
of Iran’s isolation will come off the US projects especially because
the United States are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Thus, if Azerbaijan reconciles with Iran and frustrates the US policy
on isolation of this country, this may lead to definite steps from
the US side to coax Baku. In addition, Iran when time works in favor
of this country and the United States are losing opportunities for
effective pressure on Tehran is gradually turning into a regional
superpower under support of Russia and China. Meanwhile, Iran is really
an independent player in our region and Azerbaijan’s reconciliation
with this country would allow using all opportunities of normalizing
relations with such an influential regional superpower".