President Ilham Aliyev warns that Azerbaijan-Iran relations have hit their lowest point in history, citing what he calls state-sponsored terrorism from Tehran.
Brenda Shaffer traces the roots of this hostility, from Iran’s opposition to Azerbaijani independence in 1991 through its arms support for Armenia in the 2020 war, and examines the fallout from January 2023’s deadly attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran.
