Artsakh
The Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan has announced the conclusion of a preliminary investigation into the former military and political leaders of Artsakh. The cases are expected to be brought before courts in the near future. Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, the Prosecutor General said that criminal proceedings were initiated against 15 individuals over several years. According to Azerbaijani media, these individuals, including former leaders of Artsakh, have been internationally sought and face a range of serious charges. The charges stem from Azerbaijan’s military operation against the Republic of Artsakh in September 2023, during which several leaders were illegally detained and transferred to Baku. They are falsely accused of financing terrorism, forming unlawful armed groups and conducting terrorist activities.
Georgia
Georgia’s parliamentary elections are being overshadowed by unprecedented foreign interference, according to Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. He expressed confidence that such interference will not significantly impact the election outcomes. The parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 26. This will be the first time electronic ballot boxes will be used, installed at 74% of polling stations and expected to serve nearly 90% of voters. The ruling Georgian Dream party, which has been in power for 12 years, is seeking re-election for a fourth term. Its main challenger is the United National Movement, founded by former President Mikheil Saakashvili. Parties must surpass a five percent threshold to secure a seat in parliament.
Iran
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran has expressed strong opposition to the proposed “Zangezur Corridor” project, which seeks to create a land route connecting Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan through southern Armenia. The IRGC views the corridor as a threat to its historical borders with Armenia, asserting that changes to borders could destabilize the region and undermine Iran’s geopolitical interests. Iran has also voiced concern over recent statements from Russian officials supporting the corridor. Tehran has urged Russia to reconsider its position, given the strategic partnership between the two countries. The IRGC and Iranian leadership have said that any intervention by Turkey, Azerbaijan or Russia regarding the corridor will be met with strong diplomatic and military resistance.
Russia
In a recent meeting in St. Petersburg, Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, assured Ali Akbar Ahmadyan, Iran’s National Security Council Secretary, of Russia’s respect for Iran’s sovereignty in relation to the proposed “Zangezur Corridor.” Shoigu emphasized Russia’s commitment to Iran’s national integrity concerning the “Zangezur Corridor.” This reassurance comes in response to criticism directed at Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov by Iranian officials. During a visit to Azerbaijan last month, Lavrov described Armenia’s reluctance to support the corridor as “sabotage,” and referred to the “Zangezur Corridor” as a crucial project for linking Azerbaijan’s territories.
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I will never forget the image of former Artsakh President, Arayik Harutyunyan, sitting in a military tent with his legs crossed, with Armenian soldiers, and drinking Armenian coffee, while making the Armenian Diaspora believe that Artsakh was winning the war against Azerbaijan while in reality, it was being handed its own ass. I felt like such a sucker and loser later when the truth came out. The Armenian media also lied by giving “updates” of the amount of Azeri tanks, soldiers, and equipment, destroyed and killed like a video game. Again, the truth was that Artsakh was being annihilated and soldiers being wiped out by drones, Turks, Pakistanis, NATO intelligence, and mercenaries. Why the lies? Why the deception?
Indeed Harutyunyan, has something to answer for by his grossly misleading reports hence the stab in the back myths popular in November 2020 onwards. Not to rely on community publications for information and sometimes media from indifferent countries for a more realistic presentation. Obviously the Armenian government isn’t going to be having an enquiry for the matters of a separate now defunct government of which it never gave full diplomatic accordance to. Clearly pride, hubris of old glories blinded people to the present realities and not wanting to spread bad morale after all at times it was touch and go in the first conflict. Clearly a social process of being more open minded and willingness to confront those who mislead and hence decieve their own and not allow myths to prosper. A tell tale was the difference in propoganda Azeri postings which were far more numerous simply had the incident shown of the demise of Armenian assets and the national flag in graphics fluttering in the corner and Azerbaijan ministry of defence in the opposite corner whereas the fewer Armenian incidents began with an elaborate graphic of the screen opening an addition of a ” whip woo ” sound and an eagle screeching and then the incident but padded with unnecessary theatrics a tell tale of a struggling cause having special effects..
The vindictive leaders of Azerbaijani dictatorship are taking advantage of the situation presented to them by incompetent, dysfunctional, unpatriotic and traitorous Pashinyan government, NATO member terrorist Turkey and Russian occupiers disguised as “peacekeepers” to exact vengeance on these people because of the devastating and utmost humiliating defeat they suffered at the hands of the Armenians back in 1994. The defeat handed to Azerbaijani criminals by our daring and patriotic victorious leaders of the time was so intense and so deep that shattered all Turkish and pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani myths about all the fairy tales they have been feeding to their unsuspecting and institutionally brainwashed peasant populations. Armenian warriors of the time took away what little manhood Azerbaijanis had and humiliated them for three decades so much so that they are now trying to restore what they lost but to no avail because despite their empty bravado someone else took credit for the 2020 invasion and that was terrorist Turkey’s terrorist-in-chief Er-dog-an himself who recently discredited and humiliated Ilham Aliyev, the chicken-hawk khan of Baku, in front the entire world when referring to Israeli-Gaza conflict he said and I quote “We can enter Gaza like we entered Libya and Karabakh”.
That was no surprise to me at all because I knew how incompetent Azerbaijanis were militarily and not just thirty years ago but to this day even after being trained by Turkey’s terrorist defense ministry, as evidenced by their disastrous attack in 2016 lasting 4 days, because they could never do anything on their own and needed Turkey’s direct military involvement to take the lead in the invasion of Armenian liberated territories. What surprised me was all Artsakh leaders putting so much trust on the Russian “peacekeepers” who, as it turned out, were there not to keep the two sides apart by to hand Artsakh over to the enemy piece by piece as evidenced by their inaction against enemy aggression while at the same time standing in the way of Armenians to retaliate. What they should have done was to somehow secure the population and use those billion plus dollars’ worth of weapons they handed over to the enemy via their Russian traitors to conduct a guerrilla attack on the enemy forces and drag it out to get the international community involved like what they should have done during the joint Turkish-Azerbaijani 2020 invasion which they failed to do and that was to targ enemy oil & gas pipelines right off the bat at the start of the invasion and to hit and destroy their water reservoir dams flooding enemy towns and villages. Hitting the pipelines alone would have gotten Europe involved not so much to help the Armenians but to secure their Caspian oil & gas investments that would have taken the invasion in a whole different direction. But they did not and ended up where they are for being loyal to the lies fed to them by their Russian occupiers who were there ultimately to secure the handover of Artsakh to the enemy to keep Azerbaijan, a creation of their own, within their sphere of influence and now a much closer ally to Russia than Armenia and, as it turned out, to pump their EU-sanctioned oil & gas to EU via Azerbaijani pipelines to finance the Russian invasion of Ukraine!
The defeat of Azerbaijan in 1994 was NOT the utmost defeat such as was for Nazi Germany or Napoleonic France. Sadly Armenians thinking and acting as though it was led to the catastrophe of 2020 . Pride before disaster arrogance before a fall! After all if it really was then a peace treaty then would have resulted in Armenia formally including Artsakh into Armenia and being formally acknowledged by Azerbaijan itself…
Perhaps the period 1994 – 2020 has too many men in black leather jackets knocking back Ararat brandy in smoke filled taverns about how we struggled hard against the odds in many ways and in 1994 like a dam collapsing Azeri positions fell with much back slapping and regaling in evermore distant glories and anyone saying but that was then and this is now an no UN nation recognised our authority officially nor did Armenia even recognise Arktash as an independent entity and Yerevan policy was vacillating and ambiguous and indecisive. However at least Russia failures in Ukraine has largely silenced the notion that Armenia lost because Russia stepped back out of disagreement with Armenia and had they not they would have been able to champion Armenia like the USA did with the Kosovo Albanian cause in 1999 after all Russia seems unable to stop evermore audacious drone and missile attacks from Ukraine against itself hence there is no way they would do for Armenia what as it turns out can’t do for themselves!