The late Iran President Ebrahim Raisi with Azerbaijan counterpart Ilham Aliyev at a dam project near the border, May 19, 2024. Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran as he returned from the visit.
I joined Rusif Huseynov of the Topchubashov Center in Baku, Azerbaijan for a 22-minute analysis of Iran’s tactics for influence in the South Caucasus, including Azerbaijan and Armenia, and beyond.
We discuss the issues in the region, including the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh; Iran’s approach to escape its economic and political difficulties amid sanctions and isolation; the interaction with other countries such as Russia and China; and the domestic dynamic of the Azerbaijani population in the Islamic Republic.
Here is how animal agents of khamenei arresting a lawyer.
https://youtube.com/shorts/T5gU_kmdfww?si=kBRDMtuP4BxiUXP9
The description in farsi reads: This event happened on friday near Tabriz. This layer had a poster of pezeshkian candidate on his car windshield. On Sunday the prosecutor of Tabriz issued arrest warrant for people who captured and released this clip on social media……
Iranian in UK flees to Israel after pulling off headscarves: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240703-iranian-in-uk-flees-to-israel-after-pulling-off-headscarves/
“An Iranian monarchist who filmed herself pulling the headscarves off Iranians in London fled to Israel after UK police announced they were investigating her. The woman allegedly responsible is an Iranian pro-Israel activist called Bahar Mahroo, who later closed her Instagram and TikTok accounts and claimed she found the videos online. However, a reserve image search found no sources for the video, other than her Twitter account. Mahroo’s Twitter account also reveals support for far-right politicians across Europe including well known racists like Tommy Robinson. Mahroo posted herself boarding a flight to Tel Aviv shortly after police in London announced their probe into her videos.”
More on the case of Bashir Biazar: https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/2024/07/03/france-expels-prominent-iranian-bashir-biazar-suspected-of-links-to-irgc/
“A representative of the French Interior Ministry told a hearing earlier on Wednesday that Mr Biazar was an “agent of influence, an agitator who promotes the views of the Islamic Republic of Iran and, more worryingly, harasses opponents of the regime….The representative accused him of filming journalists from Iranian opposition media in September in front of the Iranian consulate in Paris after an arson attack on the building…French authorities also accused him of posting messages on social networks in connection with the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in which he denounced “Zionist dogs”.”