Iranian troops have entered Artsakh

(but there is a caveat)

We have already stated the day before that it is important for any state that the “mental map” of its political elite aligns with the actual political map. When this does not happen, a country that has lost a war may not conduct military exercises with its closest neighbors and strategic partner for five consecutive years. Instead, it may purchase Bastion armored vehicles from a non-regional country, which are used more to ensure internal security, such as dispersing demonstrations, rather than defending against the aggressor state.

If Armenia has not conducted joint exercises with Iran in five years, then Azerbaijan has. Moreover, the exercises were held on the territory of occupied Artsakh, which, according to some experts, includes the Armenian Hadrut regiment’s territory.

It should be noted that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Azerbaijani army are conducting joint military exercises in Karabakh. Here we can say that “Iranian troops have entered Artsakh, but there is a caveat.”

In almost five years since the end of the 44-day war, Armenia, led by Nikol Pashinyan, has not taken military-industrial relations with Iran to a new level (we could have at least started purchasing military equipment from Iran, which today actively influences the course of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict) and has not even conducted large-scale military exercises.

As a result, official Yerevan gave Azerbaijan the opportunity to “seize the initiative,” leading to yet another round of Azerbaijani-Iranian joint exercises—this time on the occupied territory of Armenian Artsakh.

This is the same Iran that has been trading with Artsakh since the 1990s, the same Iran where former Artsakh Security Council head Vitaly Balasanyan attended General Qasem Soleimani’s funeral. But Pashinyan will not miss the opportunity to miss the opportunity…

Armenia’s second president, Robert Kocharyan, said in an interview yesterday that Armenia needs to restore its strategic partnership with Russia and take into account the Iranian factor. “The Iranian component should be added to the Armenian-Russian relations, turning them into a trilateral format,” he said.

Official Yerevan had a chance to create a Russia-Armenia-Iran alliance, but instead it turned out to be a Nikol Pashinyan-Ararat Mirzoyan-Armen Grigoryan triangle, which not only failed to realize this potential but also includes a person who considers it possible to close the Armenian-Iranian border, a person without whose approval Sergey Lavrov would not have been welcomed in Armenia with a banner reading “Putin is a killer”, and people supporting an agenda of severing ties with both Tehran and Moscow.

Think about it…