@USEmbassyBaku What a joke. They visited Stepanakert and Shushi, ethnically cleansed lands of indigenous Armenians. Stop whitewashing your support of genocide and human rights violations.
Previously unpublished video։ At White House, the Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations between #Armenia and #Azerbaijan was initialed in the presence of PM Nikol Pashinyan, Presidents Donald Trump and Ilham Aliyev.
@CanadaFP@CanadaArmenia I hope Canada will also help Armenia to bring back POW’s of #Artsakh war that are still being held captive in #Baku 4 years after the 44 Day War of 2020.
Azerbaijani forces opened fire on Armenian positions in Tavush and Gegharkunik. AZ blamed Armenia. Unsurprising, and again, part of AZ's well-established, pre-attack pattern.
If only all those US/EU promises of support would translate to action against AZ's aggressions.
"Joe Biden has arguably been the most anti-Armenian president to occupy the Oval Office."
- @spechdimaldji, "How Joe Biden Lost the Armenian American Vote" @RCPolitics (April 5, 2024)
https://t.co/ytKGVXImRx
Azerbaijani state media continues to ratchet up accusations against Armenia. Claims Armenia, emboldened by the US/EU meeting today, deployed more troops.
The Armenian border is called "conditional," which AZ does to imply Armenia has no sovereign territory
🇦🇲🇦🇿1/2:On the night of April 6th&April 7th,#Azerbaijan'i AF units opened fire btwn 22:45&00:25 near #Khoznavar(#Syunik Province),at 22:45-00:48 near #Aravus(Syunik Province),&on April 7th at 02:20 in #Sotk(#Gegharkunik Province),targeting the positions of the #Armenia'n AF.
Azerbaijan continued to poke and fire on us then claims that we are the aggressors by buying weapons to defend ourselves.
#stopazeriaggression#SanctionAzerbaijan
BREAKING: Armenia's Ministry of Defense has confirmed that Azerbaijan's Armed Forces fired upon Armenia for the second consecutive day. On the night of April 5th to 6th, Azerbaijani forces targeted Armenian positions in various regions, including Sotk, Verin Shorzha, Kut, Aravus, Chinari, and Movses villages in the provinces of Gegharkunik, Tavush, and Syunik.
According to Armenia’s MOD, Azerbaijan’s actions seemed aimed at provoking a response for propaganda purposes. However, Armenian forces exercised restraint, leading to a calming of the situation along the border. The Ministry of Defense of Armenia also denounced Azerbaijani attempts at misinformation.
Specifically, gunfire occurred from 22:25 to 22:50 towards Sotk village in Gegharkunik, at 23:15 towards Verin Shorzha village in Gegharkunik, at 00:15 towards Kut village in Gegharkunik, from 23:15 to 23:20 towards Aravus in Syunik, from 23:05 to 23:20 towards Chinari village in Tavush, and from 00:15 to 01:20 towards Armenian positions near Movses village in Tavush.
Additionally, Armenian Armed Forces units observed active movement of Azerbaijani Armed Forces vehicles between 21:00 and 23:00 in the direction of Ishkhanasar in Syunik.
The Armenia MOD reports that the Armenia-Azerbaijan border is currently calm.
Israel continues to arm Azerbaijan — the 6th shipment this year.
The same drones, rockets & cluster bombs used to indiscriminately kill Palestinians are being sold for Azerbaijan to do the same to Armenians.
Israel is complicit in Azerbaijan’s genocidal assault on Armenia.
Comments on an Azerbaijani state media video about a fuel tank explosion in Stepanakert resulting in many injuries.
Truly, comments on any AZ state media about Armenians.
AZ society is so broken. This level of hatred is inhuman, and it’s by the AZ gov’s design.
Let’s talk about Azeri lobbying in Israel. I spent a long time not talking about this because I felt so much pressure as a journalist in Israel but I don’t want to be silent about this.
Azerbaijan has heavily invested in lobbying in Israel at a government and PR level. They even have a fancy tourist center set up on the beach in Tel Aviv. This is a known tactic of Aliyev, who is an anti-democratic dictator as much as he “supports” Israel.
One of the most unpleasant tactics I’ve seen is their buying off of journalists, public figures, and the media. I have personally witnessed utterly false claims being made both in private and public to the Israeli media by the Azeri lobby, which also pressures and harasses Israeli journalists when it comes to speaking out about Armenia. This is not the behavior of an “ally” certainly not of a democratic nation which respects free press.
As a journalist myself, I’ve been invited on “educational tours” sponsored by the Azeri government more than once (which I refused). Many of my peers have both been invited and have gone themselves. I know of cases in which “important people” were literally given gifts of gold Jewellery by the Azeri government during their visit. This is their strategic approach, buttering up key journalists and public figures and bombarding them with false information.
Azerbaijan has an aggressive global political agenda and spends an incredible amount of money lobbying Israel (and others) to promote it — money that Armenia simply doesn’t have. In another example, the Azeri lobby in Israel was behind the effort to essentially trick over 30 MKs into signing a letter supporting separatism in Iran in the Azeri provinces. Once I exposed this, more than 25 of them rescinded their signatures. This is emblematic of the Azeri lobby: dishonest, deceptive and loaded with money. But Azerbaijan, there are some people you can’t buy.
For months, the Azeri regime has been promoting a completely false and fabricated narrative that the Azeris are Israel in this scenario with Armenia and they’re just “defending themselves” against “terrorists.” This is rooted in pan-Turkic ideology that seeks the complete destruction of the first Christian nation in the world (Armenia).
This is a blatant lie used justify ethnic cleansing from the disputed territory of #NagornoKarabakh, an area of 120,000 ethnic Armenians, historically Armenian for thousands of years, that’s surrounded by Azeris. This territory is surrounded by Azerbaijan because of how the Soviets drew the boundaries after the fall of the USSR. Azerbaijan has launched multiple wars and a blockade to drive our Armenians from their land, and they are much more powerful thanks to Israeli weapons.
After the 2020 war, despite the risks, Armenia had offered to give up territorial claims in exchange for the guarantee that the Armenians in the territory will be protected — as Azerbaijan has previously committed massacres and ethnic cleansing of Armenian cities. In Nakhichevan, another territory which was historically Armenian but drawn into modern Azerbaijan’s borders, the Azeris destroyed 98% of the historical and religious sites of Armenians, attempting to erase their connection to the land, after a shameful campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Instead of agreeing to protect the human rights of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh today, Azerbaijan launched another war against Armenians including attacking civilian targets. This comes after months of incitement to violence and dehumanisation of Armenians by the Azeri government and media.
If you see Israelis “supporting” Azerbaijan, just know that it’s the result of an ugly, organized, premeditated lobbying campaign of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan does NOT have shared values with the state of Israel, it is NOT a democracy — it’s a dictatorship, and dictatorships are not true allies.
Reminder that Azerbaijan's territorial ambitions don't end with Artsakh.
Aliyev says "Western AZ" comes next, and AZ has already launched multiple large-scale attacks on Armenian territory in the last 2 years.
EXCLUSIVE: @KimKardashian and Dr. Eric Esrailian write about how it’s time for America (and the world) to take action to protect Armenians from Azerbaijan.
https://t.co/t6cJ1Qg4AQ
@VuqarHu54801809@LindseySnell You are verbatim repeating the history of your own people. When will you understand that the books you learned your history from were made up stories to indoctrinate you?? Propaganda at its finest is when you don’t realize you’ve been a victim of it.
More Azerbaijani state propaganda about "West Azerbaijan," and a reminder that last December, Aliyev said that since the "Karabakh situation" is solved, the next step is for Azerbaijan to regain "West Azerbaijan." Which is Armenia.