this study is looking to understand the reasons behind cold relations of iran and republic of azerbaijan. the authors believe that iran and azerbaijan have not had friendly relationship in spite of many similarities including historical, cultural, ethnic and religious background. the hypothesis of this study is that there are six factors that cause the unfriendly relations. these factors are et...

along with breakdown of soviet :union:, political geographical system as well as meaning construction of central asia and caucasus changed dramatically. thus new structure, necessities, and actors have emerged in relations between iran and countries locating in caucasus. one of these countries is azerbaijan. iran-azerbaijan relationship is of high significance from different aspects. after azer...

since the collapse of the soviet :union: and the declaration of independence by azerbaijan, tehran-baku relations have been generally moving in the right direction with occasional ups and downs over the past two decades. factors such as cultural and historical communalities and the potential for economic cooperation have acted as impetus for the expansion of relations between the two neighbors....

iran and armenia as the countries with great religious, language and cultural differences have close and extensive ties in various fields. to understand the reason of these close and extensive ties, in addition to common interest of the two countries from this relationship, it is necessary to notice an external factor that is republic of azerbaijan and their common threat perception of them. in...

the enormous changes in international system after the soviet :union: collapse led to a power vacuum and unprecedented competition of regional and trans-regional powers in central asia and caucasus. as a result of these phenomena, any actions by regional and international powers were viewed in the context of regional rivalries. therefore, this fact brought several important obstacles in front o...