Tensions Flare Up Between Iran And Azerbaijan, Amid Military Drills, Claims And Counterclaims

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Meanwhile, relations between Tehran and Armenia are improving.
52% : Azerbaijan used Israeli-made armed drones in a brief conflict with Armenia last year (one in which Iran was also seen to support the Azerbaijan side) and ties have continued to develop since then, with an Azerbaijan trade office opening in Tel Aviv this summer.
51% : Armenian foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan was in Tehran on October 4, holding talks with his Iranian counterpart.
48% : Iran now says Israeli military advisers are active in Azerbaijan.
44% : Iran's "direct and indirect support of ethnic separatism in Azerbaijan does not bode well for the territorial integrity of Iran, where 30 million Azerbaijani Turks and many other nations live," he said.
42% : At least two Iranian truckers have also been detained on the road, prompting warnings from Tehran. "
40% : Then we started to control the road passing through Azerbaijani land, and the trucks sent by Iran to Karabakh came to an end," he said, adding that if they crossed Azerbaijani land they should pay taxes.
38% : Most recently, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on October 6, while on a visit to Moscow, that Tehran was "deeply concerned by Israel's presence in the Caucasus."
37% : I write about business and politics in the Middle East and beyond Relations between Iran and its neighbor Azerbaijan have steadily deteriorated over recent weeks, fueled by military drills on both sides of the border, allegations of an Israeli military presence and the imposition of border controls on a road straddling the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
37% : Iran has also offered to help Armenia finish an alternative route from the border via the town of Tatev.
27% : Israel's ambassador to Azerbaijan George Deek has arguably not helped matters by stepping up his criticism of Iran on Twitter and saying, in a video posted on September 1, that "I have been near the border many times."

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