June 7, 2006 - 18:07 AMT
Iranian TV Represented Karabakh as Independent Republic. Baku Discontent
Baku expressed discontent over the fact that the State Iranian Television presented Nagorno Karabakh as an independent republic on the news. As head of the press office of the Congress of Azerbaijanis of the World Ali Nicat stated, in a report covering the Bucharest talks of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents Iran TV 1 journalist said, "The Independent Nagorno Karabakh Republic proclaimed its independence 15 years ago. Now Azerbaijan raises territorial claims to the republic." "We perceive it as a threat to Azerbaijan from the direction of Iran, since Southern Azerbaijan has an information outlet into the world via the Azerbaijani republic only. With such threats Iran wishes to force Azerbaijan to close this outlet," he said, reported Day.az.