We Must Not Allow Iran To Block Tentative Steps Toward Peace In South Caucusus – Analysis

By Luke Coffey*

During a parade in Baku in December 2020 marking Azerbaijan’s victory in the Second Karabakh War, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recited an Azerbaijani poem that caught the attention of Iran.

The poem, titled “Gulustan,” speaks of sadness resulting from the fact that the Aras River divides the...