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Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev seen during the voting at a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, October 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 10, 2013 | World
Baku, Associated Press—Something funny happened the day before Azerbaijan’s presidential election: The election commission announced the winner. On Tuesday, a day before the voting began, the smartphone app of the Central Election Commission released results...
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File photo of a giant Azerbaijan flag in Baku. (OSMAN KARIMOV/AFP/Getty Images)
by Amir Taheri | Apr 5, 2013 | Opinion
By all accounts Azerbaijan should be Iran’s closest ally. The tiny republic on the Caspian Sea is home to nine million people with strong ethnic, historic, and religious ties to the Iranian people. Almost 80 percent speak Azeri, an Altaic language with a...