June 1, 2006 - 17:01 AMT
Yerevan: Shushi Keys Are in Hands of Genuine Masters of the City - Karabakh Armenians
There is no need to look for keys of Shushi - it is in the hands of genuine masters of the city - Karabakh Armenians, political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, Tabriz, like other Turkic-speaking towns of Iran, does not need liberation. «These are ancient Iranian settlements, whose residents were forced to change their language owing to long-term occupation by Turks. Ethnic Persians live there. Baku knows it well, thus they separate Turkic-speaking Iranians from themselves and call them «Hamshari», he noted.

Azerbaijan is trying to contribute to collapse of the IRI to please the US. "Iran is a tradionalist country, which worthily survived thousands of years of success and failure. It will without fail cope with the flow of false accusations, poured on it from Washington, Ankara and Baku," Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

We remind former Azeri Minister of Education Firuddin Jalilov said that Keys of Shushi should be sought not in Russia or the US. They are in Tabriz. Liberation of Tabriz from Persians is liberation of Karabakh.»