June 2012
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Why is there tension between Iran and Azerbaijan?
Iran was nervous about Azerbaijan right from its independence, the idea of homeland for the Azerbaijani people is seen as dangerous. It may give “funny ideas” to its local Azerbajani population to join it.
There are also historical reasons for this fear; In 1945, Soviet troops moved into Iranian Azerbaijan and created a short lived Soviet-backed puppet regime by the name of...
