/cwg/ Caucasus War General 381 - Jihad Edition

28/10
Iran has prepared peace and cease fire deal, and deputy of foreign ministry will visit Baku, Moscow, Yerevan and Ankara to present the deal.
26/10
Artsakh defence minister killed* in airstrike
24/10
Iran deployed tanks and artillery to the border with Azerbaijan.

23/10
>Reports of Azerbaijani air force dropping bombs over Stepanakert and Xocavend
>NATO is not part of the conflict in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey is a valued Ally and I also stated that clearly to the President of Armenia
>Azerbaijan captured Dolanar and Bunyadli villages of Khojavend, Dag Tumas, Nusus, Xelefli, Minbashili and Veyselli villages of Jabrayil, Venedli and Mirzehasanli villages of Zengilan,Zilanli, Kurd Mahrizli, Muganli and Alagurshag villages of Gubadli.
>Stepanakert is shelled, Lachin is shelled, intense fighting in Xocavend and Lachin directions
>Pompeo stressed the importance of resolving the conflict based on the Helsinki Final Act principles of the non-use or threat of force, territorial integrity, and the equal rights and self-determination of peoples.
>azerimaps
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>hoholmaps
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>turkshitmaps
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>other sources
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Harutyunyan interview
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Interview with Aliyev
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>latest Azeri drone footage
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Iran

Richard Nelson Frye defines Greater Iran as including "much of the Caucasus, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, with cultural influences extending to China and western India."

According to Frye, "Iran means all lands and peoples where Iranian languages were and are spoken, and where in the past, multi-faceted Iranian cultures existed."

Only in modern times did western colonial intervention and ethnicity tend to become a dividing force between the provinces of Greater Iran.

As Patrick Clawson states, "ethnic nationalism is largely a nineteenth century phenomenon, even if it is fashionable to retroactively extend it."

"Greater Iran" however has been more of a cultural super-state, rather than a political one to begin with.

"Many Iranians consider their natural sphere of influence to extend beyond Iran's present borders.

Portuguese forces seized islands and ports in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the 19th century, the Russian Empire wrested from Tehran's control what is today Armenia, Republic of Azerbaijan, and part of Georgia.

Iranian elementary school texts teach about the Iranian roots not only of cities like Baku, but also cities further north like Derbent in southern Russia.

The Shah lost much of his claim to western Afghanistan following the Anglo-Iranian war of 1856-1857.

"Iran today is just a rump of what it once was. At its height, Iranian rulers controlled Iraq, Afghanistan, Western Pakistan, much of Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Many Iranians today consider these areas part of a greater Iranian sphere of influence." -Patrick Clawson

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Strabo, in his Geography, mentions the unity of Medes, Persians, Bactrians and Sogdians:

The name of Ariana is further extended to a part of Persia and of Media, as also to the Bactrians and Sogdians on the north; for these speak approximately the same language, with but slight variations.

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According to the Histories of Herodotus (440 BC):

The Medes were formerly called by everyone Arians,

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The term "Airya/Airyan" appears in the royal Old Persian inscriptions:

As the name of the language of the Old Persian version of the inscription of Darius I in Behistun

For example in the Dna and Dse Darius and Xerxes describe themselves as "An Achaemenian, A Persian son of a Persian and an Aryan, of Aryan stock".

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To the Ancient Greeks, Greater Iran ended at the Indus River located in Pakistan.

"Iran means all lands and peoples where Iranian languages were and are spoken, and where in the past, multi-faceted Iranian cultures existed."

Many times I have emphasized that the present peoples of Central Asia, whether Iranian or Turkic speaking, have one culture, one religion, one set of social values and traditions with only language separating them.

— Richard Nelson Frye

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Arab historian Al-Masudi, attest to an Iranian presence in the region

The Persians are a people whose borders are the Mahat Mountains and Azarbaijan(modern Iran) up to Armenia(E. Turkey and Hayastan) and Arran(Rep of Azerbaijan)

>Ganja city, Azerbaijan

According to De Blois, Ganja was a city which at that time had predominantly an Iranian population.

The Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi (c. 1200 – 1271) mentions that: "This city was densely populated with Iranians and a small number of Christians".

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>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Clawson

American economist and Middle East scholar. He is currently the Director for Research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and senior editor of Middle East Quarterly.

Clawson graduated with a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1973 and earned a Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research in 1978. He taught at Seton Hall University

Lets see what experts like Patrick Clawson has to say

"Since the days of the Achaemenids, the Iranians had the protection of geography. But high mountains and vast emptiness of the Iranian plateau were no longer enough to shield Iran from the Russian army or British navy.

Both literally, and figuratively, Iran shrank. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Afghanistan were Iranian, but by the end of the century, all this territory had been lost as a result of European military action."

>At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Afghanistan were Iranian,

>Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Afghanistan were Iranian,

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijanis are designated as a Turkic people, due to their Turkic language.

Modern-day Azerbaijanis are believed to be primarily the descendants of the Caucasian Albanian and Iranian peoples who lived in the areas of the Caucasus and northern Iran, respectively

Historian Vladimir Minorsky writes that largely Iranian and Caucasian populations became Turkic-speaking:

In the beginning of the 11th century the Ghuzz hordes, first in smaller parties, and then in considerable numbers, under the Seljuqids occupied Azerbaijan. In consequence, the Iranian population of Azerbaijan and the adjacent parts of Transcaucasia became Turkophone while the characteristic features of Adharbayjani Turkish, such as Persian intonations and disregard of the vocalic harmony, reflect the non-Turkic origin of the Turkicised population.

The Iranian origins of the Azerbaijanis likely derive from ancient Iranian tribes, such as the Medes in Iranian Azerbaijan, and Scythian invaders who arrived during the eighth century BC. It is believed that the Medes mixed with Mannai.

Arab historian Al-Masudi, attest to an Iranian presence in the region

The Persians are a people whose borders are the Mahat Mountains and Azarbaijan up to Armenia and Arran

their style of living closely resemble those of Persians

The life styles of urban Azerbaijanis do not differ from those of Persians, and there is considerable intermarriage among the upper classes in cities of mixed populations. Similarly, customs among Azerbaijani villagers do not appear to differ markedly from those of Persian villagers.

Azeris are distant from Anatolian Turks and European Turks

No close genetic relationship was observed between Azeris of Iran and the people of Turkey or Central Asians.

According to the current results, present-day Kurds and Azeris of Iran seem to belong to a common genetic pool

MtDNA analysis indicates that Persians, Anatolians and Caucasians are part of a larger West Eurasian group that is secondary to that of the Caucasus.

Pan-Iranism is an ideology that advocates solidarity and reunification of Iranian peoples living in the Iranian plateau and other regions that have significant Iranian cultural influence, including the Persians, Azeris, Lurs, Gilaks, Mazanderanis, Kurds, Zazas, Talysh, Tajiks of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Pashtuns, Hazaras, Ossetians, Baloch of Pakistan, etc.

The first theoretician was Dr Mahmoud Afshar Yazdi.

Iranian political scientist Dr. Mahmoud Afshar developed the Pan-Iranist ideology in the early 1920s in opposition to Pan-Turkism and Pan-Arabism, which were seen as potential threats to the territorial integrity of Iran

On the eve of World War I, pan-Turkists focused on the Turkic-speaking lands of Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia.

The ultimate purpose was to persuade these populations to secede from the larger political entities to which they belonged and join the new pan-Turkic homeland

It was the latter appeal to Iranian Azerbaijanis, which, contrary to Pan-Turkist intentions, caused a small group of Azerbaijani intellectuals to become the strongest advocates of the territorial integrity of Iran.

After the constitutional revolution in Iran, a romantic nationalism was adopted by Azerbaijani Democrats as a reaction to the pan-Turkist irredentist policies threatening Iran’s territorial integrity.[11] It was during this period that Iranism and linguistic homogenization policies were proposed as a defensive nature against all others.

Contrary to what one might expect, foremost among innovating this defensive nationalism were Iranian Azerbaijanis.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Azeri_language

Old Azeri , also referred to as Azeri or Azari , is the extinct Iranian language that was once spoken in Azerbaijan before the Turkification of the Azeris.

Some linguists believe the southern Tati varieties of Iranian Azerbaijan around Takestan such as the Harzandi and Karingani dialects to be remnants of Azeri. In addition, Old Azeri is known to have strong affinities with Talysh.

Azeri was the dominant language in Azerbaijan before it was replaced by Azerbaijani, which is a Turkic language

The first scholar who discovered Azeri language is Ahmad Kasravi, who was an predominant Iranian Azeri scholar and linguist

He conducted comprehensive research using Arabic, Persian, and Greek historical sources to prove that the people of Azerbaijan used to speak a language of the Iranian family called Azeri before adapting the Turkic language of the same name.

This discovery lead him to conclude that the people of Azarbaijan were an Iranic group who were assimilated and eventually Turkified by invading Seljuq Turks.

Igrar Aliyev states that:

In the writing of medieval Arab historians (Ibn Hawqal, Muqqaddesi..), the people of Azarbaijan spoke Azari.

This Azari was without doubt an Iranian language because it is also contrasted with Dari but it is also mentioned as Persian.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Kasravi

Kasravi was an Iranian Azeri.

He was the founder of a political-social movement whose goal was to build an Iranian secular identity.

Kasravi is known for his solid and controversial research work on the ancient Azari language. He showed that the ancient Azari language was an offshoot of Pahlavi(Iranian) language

Due to this discovery, he was granted membership of the London Royal Asiatic Society and American Academy.

Arguing that the ancient Azari language had been closely related to Persian language

Ahmad Kasravi believed that the true national language of Iranian Azerbaijan was Persian

therefore advocated the linguistic assimilation of Persian in Azarbaijan.

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