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62-year-old Artsakh resident Rashid Beglaryan has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Azerbaijan. According to Azerbaijani authorities, Beglaryan was convicted for committing war crimes and will serve the first five years of his sentence in a strict regime correctional institution. The final court session in this contentious case took place on June 7. Azerbaijani prosecutors accused Beglaryan of involvement in the so-called “Khojalu genocide,” a claim disputed by many witnesse
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Iranian Ambassador to Armenia is being duplicitous. On the one hand, he publicly claims Iran recognizes artificial Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity while, on the other hand, his government privately claims the lands today under the occupation of the artificial Azerbaijan republic, invented in 1918 for the first time in the history of the region, were integral parts of Iran they lost to Russia in the Russo-Persian war and lay a claim to them to this day. Iran knows that the only TRUE Azerbaijan that ever existed is to the south of the Araz River inside Iran and nowhere else. Iran also knows exclusively Armenian-populated Artsakh had always been an Armenian territory and should have the courage to say so instead of playing dirty politics. They can’t claim or pretend to be neighborly when Armenia is geographically protecting them by separating their historical Turkish and pseudo-Turkish enemies from uniting against Iran while defending the FALSIFIED territorial integrity of a state that never existed and was artificially created.