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The Art of Turning Neighbors into Enemies
Amir Taheri[AAWSAT.NET] By all accounts Azerbaijan should be Iran's closest ally. The tiny republic on the Caspian Sea is home to nine million people with strong ethnic, historic, and religious ties to the Iranian people. Almost 80 percent speak Azeri, an Altaic language with a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. Around 12 million people in five Iranian provinces speak a version of the language. Posted by: Fred 2013-04-06 |
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