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Nagorno-Karabakh: Iran Among the Entangled

The Southern Caucasus, a vacuum during the Soviet Union, turns into a cauldron

Oct 04, 2023
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

Flaring tensions in the Southern Caucasian region are drawing in competing geopolitical interests including not just the Armenians and Azerbaijanis, who have been slugging it out in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, but a Russia weakened by its invasion of Ukraine, as well as Turkey, Iran, and inevitably the US-led NATO. 

As the world kn…

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