Anti-Turkey Statements In Iran – Part III: Erdoğan Is Undermining Iran s Territorial Integrity
January 11, 2021 | By A. Savyon and M. Manzour
Introduction
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked rage in Iran recently by quoting a popular Azeri poem; his recitation was perceived in Iran as an insult and a provocation against Iran s sovereignty and territorial integrity. On December 10, during his participation in the Azerbaijan victory celebrations over the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia, he recited, in Turkish, a line from the Azeri poem Aras : They tore the Aras [River] and filled it with rocks and sticks / I will not be separated from you. They have separated us forcibly, he said. The poem laments the division of the Azeri provinces between the Persian Qajar Empire and Czarist Russia in the early 19th century. Areas of the Caucasus that are today part of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia belonged to the Qajar Persian Empire, and following its defeats
On December 28, 2020, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet on Telegram published a nine-page PDF guide in Arabic and English for protecting data on Android phones. The document recommended the use of an open-source app that automatically erases smartphone data after a set number of wrong password attempts. The guide provided step-by-step instructions for setting up the app.
January 7, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9129
Under Article 406 of Iraqi Penal Code, Which Provides For Death Penalty, Iraqi Court Issues Arrest Warrant For President Trump For Killing Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis
January 7, 2021
On January 7, 2020, a Baghdad court issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump as part of its investigation into the killing of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU). Al-Muhandis was killed on January 3, 2020, in the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad International Airport that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
The court for east Baghdad issued the warrant for Trump s arrest under Article 406 of the penal code, which provides for the death penalty in all cases of premeditated murder.[1]
The editorial argue that the riot in DC is the beginning of an internal conflict that will force the new U.S. administration to focus less on the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS).