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Azerbaijan is named after a Persian Satrap named Atropates, and but can also mean keeper of the sacred flame. An allusion to the oil in the country that burned on the surface naturally and was thus related to the Zoroastrian religion.
Azerbaijanis are Iranic people who are related fully to Iran.
Spoken language does not automatically describe the genetic history of a people.
Most Turkish citizens in Turkey are not Turkish (Maybe 8%). In Western Turkey people are predominantly Latin, whilst in Eastern Turkey where people are taller with longer heads, predominantly Iranian.
Most Poles are not Slavic.
Most British people are not English.
Language, which is often a point of cultural identity and even racial identity, is not the best indicator of race.
Azerbaijan was once part of Iran, before Imperial Russia conquered it and separated it from Iran some 200 years ago.
The puppet mullahs of Iran, installed by the USA/UK to help Israel achieve its imperial dream have since made mistakes in terms of their relationship with Azerbaijan.
The puppet mullahs allowed fear and suspicion, with covert Western guidance lead them to covertly back Armenia against its wars against Azerbaijan in the 1990's over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
There are 16 million Azeris in Iran, and the mullahs wrongly thought a triumphal Azerbaijan might set its sight on the unification of all Azeris.
The mullahs should have remained neutral in that conflict, sponsoring peaceful coexistence between the two Caucasus neighbors, rather than deviously and cynically supporting one side against the other.
The puppet mullahs of the USA/UK have made many many mistakes both within Iran and outside Iran.
Indeed 5,000,000 educated Iranians have left the country precisely for this reason.
However all is not lost. Mistakes can be rectified and ameliorated subsequently by states.
What will be foolish PRESENTLY is if Azerbaijan stands with Israel, and openly helps Israel as it attacks Iran.
This will attract Iranian retaliation against Azerbaijan on a prolonged basis. Years and years.
Azerbaijan is sandwiched between Iran and Russia, and Israel is far away.
To have the reputation as the only country in the region to have helped Israel attack Iran will not go down in the annals of history too well.
If an unpopular mafia government is in power in Azerbaijan, which seeks to establish a dynasty, and extract maximum profits from the Caspian oil fields for the ruling family, the clique and their sycophants.........then such an UNIQUE STATE should not look for trouble with neighbors, especially BIG neighbors such as Iran.
The REAL Turks from Central Asia are a mixture of Iranian people who once occupied Siberia, Mongolia, Sinkiang and the Stans...and Mongolic people.
Most Azeris are not Turkic. They are closer to Iran than they would like to think.
Even if most Azeris are Turkic, they should try to maintain very good relations with Iran. The mullahs will not be there in power for ever.
Azerbaijan should NOT try to emulate Deonme Turkey with its unique secret relationship and close trade with Israel.
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U.S. officials believe that the Israelis have gained access to airbases in Azerbaijan. Does this bring them one step closer to a war with Iran?
By Foreign Policy and Mark Perry.
In 2009, the deputy chief of mission of the U.S. embassy in Baku, Donald Lu, sent a cable to the State Department's headquarters in Foggy Bottom titled "Azerbaijan's discreet symbiosis with Israel." The memo, later released by WikiLeaks, quotes Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev as describing his country's relationship with the Jewish state as an iceberg: "nine-tenths of it is below the surface."
Why does it matter? Because Azerbaijan is strategically located on Iran's northern border and, according to several high-level sources I've spoken with inside the U.S. government, Obama administration officials now believe that the "submerged" aspect of the Israeli-Azerbaijani alliance -- the security cooperation between the two countries -- is heightening the risks of an Israeli strike on Iran.
Senior U.S. intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that Israel's military expansion into Azerbaijan complicates U.S. efforts to dampen Israeli-Iranian tensions, according to the sources. Military planners, I was told, must now plan not only for a war scenario that includes the Persian Gulf -- but one that could include the Caucasus. The burgeoning Israel-Azerbaijan relationship has also become a flashpoint in both countries' relationship with Turkey, a regional heavyweight that fears the economic and political fallout of a war with Iran. Turkey's most senior government officials have raised their concerns with their U.S. counterparts, as well as with the Azeris, the sources said.
The Israeli embassy in Washington, the Israel Defense Forces, and the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, were all contacted for comment on this story but did not respond.
The Azeri embassy to the United States also did not respond to requests for information regarding Azerbaijan's security agreements with Israel. During a recent visit to Tehran, however, Azerbaijan's defense minister publicly ruled out the use of Azerbaijan for a strike on Iran. "The Republic of Azerbaijan, like always in the past, will never permit any country to take advantage of its land, or air, against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which we consider our brother and friend country," he said. (Following the publication of this article, an Azeri spokesman denied that his government had granted Israel access to Azeri airbases.)
But even if his government makes good on that promise, it could still provide Israel with essential support. A U.S. military intelligence officer noted that Azeri defense minister did not explicitly bar Israeli bombers from landing in the country after a strike. Nor did he rule out the basing of Israeli search-and-rescue units in the country. Proffering such landing rights -- and mounting search and rescue operations closer to Iran -- would make an Israeli attack on Iran easier.
"We're watching what Iran does closely," one of the U.S. sources, an intelligence officer engaged in assessing the ramifications of a prospective Israeli attack confirmed. "But we're now watching what Israel is doing in Azerbaijan. And we're not happy about it."
Israel's deepening relationship with the Baku government was cemented in February by a $1.6 billion arms agreement that provides Azerbaijan with sophisticated drones and missile-defense systems. At the same time, Baku's ties with Tehran have frayed: Iran presented a note to Azerbaijan's ambassador last month claiming that Baku has supported Israeli-trained assassination squads targeting Iranian scientists, an accusation the Azeri government called "a slander." In February, a member of Yeni Azerbadzhan -- the ruling party -- called on the government to change the country's name to "North Azerbaijan," implicitly suggesting that the 16 million Azeris who live in northern Iran ("South Azerbaijan") are in need of liberation.
And this month, Baku announced that 22 people had been arrested for spying on behalf of Iran, charging they had been tasked by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to "commit terrorist acts against the U.S., Israeli, and other Western states' embassies." The allegations prompted multiple angry denials from the Iranian government....................
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