Not even the Zangezur road itself belongs to the Baku republic. It is and will remain sovereign Armenian territory. The only thing Armenia agreed to, is that vehicles from Baku may use the Armenian road on Armenian land. Nothing more. Now Baku says the Armenians aren't complying with their treaty obligations? Then Baku must file a complaint at the International Court of Arbitration, as well as at the UN. International law does not give them the right to simply occupy that stretch of foreign land militarily. Qarabaq yes, it belongs to them, but not Zangezur.
By the way: the Baku republic had always been connected to their Nakhjavan exclave via Islamic Iran. Never did Iran put any obstacle on their path, as opposed to the regime in Baku, which just recently proceeded to harassing Iranian - mostly Azari-speaking - truck drivers. Other interesting detail: use of the Iranian route for them has been free of charge - compare this with how the Baku regime increased transit fees for trucks from Iran exponentially.
So the narrative that they need to be able to connect to Nakhjavan is a pretext, given that they've already been inter-connected for decades through Iranian soil in fact. What certain elements are dreaming of, is to expand across Iran's entire northwestern border through an illegal land grab at Zangezur, and then establish a base over there to engineer and incite separatism in Azari-speaking areas of Iran, in the framework of a pan-Turkist policy of conquest and in cooperation with NATO and Tel Aviv. This would also create a direct corridor for NATO towards the Caspian Sea, something Russia could impossibly acquiesce to.
The intention to undermine Iranian territorial integrity has been conveyed in no uncertain terms by the successive dictators of Baku - Elcibey for instance personally told the IRGC commander in charge of assisting Azaris during the first Qarabaq war, that Baku would be aiming for Tabriz next ; Erdogan followed suit with his ill-inspired address at the recent victory parade in Baku. If you question Islamic Iran's territorial integrity in such a manner, you can't hope to simply get away with forced annexation of someone else's land right on Iran's borders. Doesn't and won't work like that.
Second bit of historical inaccuracy often relayed in this context, as already hinted to: during the first post-Soviet Qarabaq conflict, Iran fully backed Baku not Armenian separatists. Several Sepah personnel were even martyred for Baku's cause, a video of an IRGC commander among Baku forces was shared here several times, it constitutes irrefutable proof. What happened then? Not just that, but Iran was in fact the first country in the world to recognize the Republic of Azarbaijan as an independent state after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That's right, Iran recognized Baku's independence earlier than Turkey. What happened then?
The Baku regime "thanked" Iran by allowing local agitators (including MP's, media and so on) to openly try and foment separatism in Iran, and offered its territory to the zionists to stage UAV overflights and organize assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists as well as other intelligence activities.
Those who claimed there's "no" zionist presence in the Baku republic ought to read the news from time to time. Not only is the zionist regime one of Baku's main arms suppliers, but Baku extensively cooperates with Mossad and with anti-Iranian Isra"el"i figures. As an example, Brenda Shaffer, zionist scholar whose discourse is promoting "ethno"-linguistic separatism in Iran, is a welcome guest in Baku, where she counsels local officials and is seen pictured at the border with Islamic Iran.
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What's more, there are plenty of reports from a variety of sources about Mossad staging operations against Iran from the Baku republic.
Turkish users keep proclaiming Baku will occupy and annex Zangezur, explicit warnings by the Islamic Republic of Iran notwithstanding. Every couple of months, several invite themselves into this section of the forum seemingly to taunt their Iranian peers on the topic. It is noteworthy since Iranians aren't engaging in such commentary at the Turkish section, are they? So if Baku is going to take Zangezur, what exactly is it waiting for? All we've been seeing for the past year or more, are rehashed announcements. Users shouldn't be talking endlessly, for when their predictions aren't followed by corresponding action on the ground, all this does is to highlight the Baku republic's lacking readiness to cross Iran's well defined red line.
In conclusion: relax and call us when they actually go ahead with the annexation. Then we'll talk.
