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Iran’s Ex-Envoy Decries Bibi’s Planned Trip to Azerbaijan
News ID: 1265633 Service: Politics
December, 12, 2016 – 14:44
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/12/12/1265633/iran-s-ex-envoy-decries-bibi-s-planned-trip-to-azerbaijan
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s former ambassador to Azerbaijan expressed surprise
at the Baku government’s approval to a planned trip by Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying such a visit will contravene Azerbaijan’s
commitments to the Islamic community.
In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency, Mohsen Pakayeen deplored the
Azeri government’s green light to Bibi’s trip.
Netanyahu unveiled plans in late October for a tour of four countries:
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Australia, and Singapore. He had once visited the
Caucasus nation briefly in 1997 on the way back from a visit to the East,
and met in the airport in Baku with late Azerbaijani President Heydar
Aliyev, the father of the incumbent president.
Expressing surprise at Baku’s approval to the planned visit, Pakayeen said
the Republic of Azerbaijan, as a member of the Islamic community, should
remain committed to Muslim nations’ agreements on the prohibition of any
ties with Israel or any measure that would break the isolation of the
Zionist regime.
Moreover, the ex-envoy added, the Muslim nation of Azerbaijan has an
aversion to the occupying regime of Tel Aviv and will be naturally
dissatisfied with their government’s decision.
It is also surprising that the Republic of Azerbaijan, itself a victim of
occupation, is going to host the head of an occupying and criminal regime,
Pakayeen deplored.
He further said that Netanyahu’s upcoming visits to Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan are primarily aimed at drawing the Israeli regime out of its
international isolation, whitewashing its crimes, and also disrupting
Tehran-Baku relations, which have grown increasingly in recent years.
The former ambassador finally ruled out the possibility of strategic
relations between Baku and Tel Aviv, saying no Muslim country will establish
such relationship with the Israeli regime, the greatest threat to Islamic
world security.
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Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=71860
