Eldar Zeynalov: "The Shiite Iran prefers to be friends not with Shiite Azerbaijan but with Christian Armenia"

"Iran is united until it has a single ideology", said he and added that earlier this was the ideology of equality before padishah. Now it is the idea of Islam.

"If ideas of national enmity are applied there, which is done by Americans, this will have bloody results. This is separatist. More or less moderate Azerbaijani nationalists in the south are subjected to persecution. Iran will fight against them by tougher methods. South Azerbaijan has raised for revolution for three times in the 20th century, was thrice suppressed and the world community closed eyes on it", said Zeynalov.

According to him, Iran is interested in advocating the ideas of equality, as this terminates nationalistic propaganda for separation of South Azerbaijan. On this basis Iranians have been friends with Armenia since the 1990s.

"Armenia survives owing to Iran, as it has no common borders with Russia. All common borders, it has, are either hostile or moderate-hostile states, like Georgia.

He said the only friendly country for Christian Armenia is Shiite Iran. "It prefers to be friends not with Shiite Azerbaijan but with Christian Armenia, because there are definite geopolitical interests", concluded Zeynalov.

/Day.Az/