Posts by ARVAK

On April 22, 2024, Iranian President I. Raisi paid a three-day official visit to Pakistan. This is an extremely important event for both states, given the fact that they almost found themselves on the verge of war in January of this year.

On April 20, 2024, Matthew Orr, an expert of Stratfor – the authoritative Center for intelligence and analysis – in an interview with the Armenian portal News.am made several interesting predictions regarding the processes in the South Caucasus, Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and the situation around Iran.

On April 22, 2024, Turkish President Erdogan paid his first official visit to Baghdad since 2011. During the visit, he met with Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.

In the early morning of April 19, 2024, Israel carried out drone strikes on Isfahan airport and the 8th Iranian Air Force base, as well as on targets in Tabriz.

Russia has withdrawn the RPC – its “peacekeeping contingent” from Nagorno-Karabakh. This is a 2000-man-strong grouping armed with small arms and light armored vehicles.

On 14.04.2024, just hours after the Iranian “retaliatory attack” on Israelis, a delegation of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry headed by Minister Z. Hasanov visited Jordan.

Since the end of 2023, French policy towards the Ukrainian conflict has been significantly intensified. At the same time, Paris’s diplomacy on the South Caucasus regional track was revitalized.

On 12.04.2024 it became known that Serbia officially refused to buy Russian MiG29 fighters for its army in favor of French Rafale produced by Dassault Aviation.

On the evening of 04.04.2024, unidentified persons carried out terrorist attacks on police officers in Chabahar and Rask cities in the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan.

On 30.03.2024 The Wall Street Journal has published an article about a potential successor to Turkish President Erdogan in the next presidential elections. According to the newspaper, it could be the Turkish leader’s son-in-law Selçuk Bayraktar.