AZERI MP SAYS USA SEEKING MILITARY BASES IN ARMENIA TO ATTACK IRAN
ANS TV
April 27 2010
Azerbaijan
A senior member of Azerbaijan’s ruling party has accused Tehran of
helping enemy Armenia, a country which he claimed the USA is seeking
to use as a launchpad to "destroy" Iran. At a meeting with a group
of Iranian lawmakers in Baku on 27 April, MP Eldar Ibrahimov also
said that the USA pressured Azerbaijan some time ago for permission
to use its airspace to attack Iran.
"Of course, I do not have the right to interfere in domestic affairs
of other countries, including Iran. You have friendly relations with
Armenia. This is your own business. But you also have to know that
some a year and a half ago, the US president put a lot of pressure
on Azerbaijan to open its airspace for bombing Iran. Our respected
president did not agree," Ibrahimov was shown by ANS television
telling the Iranian MPs.
"In return for getting the Armenian border [with Turkey] reopened,
America wants to establish military bases in Armenia… from where
it wants to destroy Iran," Ibrahimov said.
The head of the Iranian parliamentary delegation, Seyyed Kazem Musavi,
replied that Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity was important for
Iran and that his country wanted Azerbaijan and Armenia to resolve
their problems peacefully.