{"id":43781,"date":"2010-08-09T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/09\/iran-cannot-become-mediator-in-karabakh-issue-alizade\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T01:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:51:00","slug":"iran-cannot-become-mediator-in-karabakh-issue-alizade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/09\/iran-cannot-become-mediator-in-karabakh-issue-alizade.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran Cannot Become Mediator in Karabakh Issue: Alizade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;Iran, of course, would like to be a mediator in the Karabakh issue; it has said so on numerous occasions. Won&#8217;t it, after all, raise its rating in the region?&#8221; said political analyst Zardusht Alizade, commenting on Armenia&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian&#8217;s upcoming visit to Iran, where the Karabakh issue will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;Each mediating country has its [own] interests. But there are circumstances under which Tehran is in no position to be a mediator in the Karabakh issue. First and foremost, the UN has awarded the responsibility of mediating the Karabakh conflict to the OSCE; Iran isn&#8217;t even geographically [in] Europe and is not a member of this organization. In addition, to become an authoritative mediator, one must have a pretty good influence on those states to whom one is administering mediation services. Moscow&#8217;s influence is felt in Yerevan, where Tehran has no role whatsoever. And finally, the &#8216;great states,&#8217; the US and Russia, are against Iran&#8217;s mediation in the Karabakh issue,&#8221; said Alizade in an interview with Day.Az.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">On the topic of possible military actions between Armenia and Azerbaijan and Iran&#8217;s position in this case, Alizade said that he&#8217;s skeptical, noting that Iran will be on neither Armenia&#8217;s nor Azerbaijan&#8217;s side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Each mediating country has its [own] interests. But there are circumstances under which Tehran is in no position to&#8230;&#8221;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[10297,10665,13735,13736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}