Baku will host the next Eurovision Song Festival from 22 – 26 May 2012. This will provide both an opportunity and a risk to both Armenia and Azerbaijan as their difficult relationship plays out on an unusual stage. At stake will be more than a simple song.
20 July: Senior Azerbaijani official has said a visa-free travel regime proposed by Turkey in 2009 had fallen victim to Iranian pressure on Azerbaijan, prompting the last minute cancellation of the deal between Baku and Ankara (Todays Zaman).
A member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament), Ali Aqazadeh Dafsari, said on Tuesday that the unmanned spy plane was flying near the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant in Qom province when the IRGC's Air Defense units brought it down