in Armenian – http://crossroadorg.info/hy/wa-21-9-2025-4-hy/
in Russian – http://crossroadorg.info/wa-21-9-2025-4/
in French – http://crossroadorg.info/en/wa-21-9-2025-4-fr/

Source

(in the current crisis, we urge you to carefully read this series of articles prepared in early 2012 and consisting of eight parts)

Just like the And the 2017 article in the magazine “Strategist”: “The US Should Support the Plan to Create a Kurdish State in Iraq”, the 2006 publication “A New Map of the Middle East According to Blood Ties and Similarities in Faith” are about the plan of Western circles to create a large Kurdish state, which pursues two goals:

a) to create a Kurdish state on the territory of Western Armenia, sub-mandated to Israel and the collective West, and

b) to suspend, once again, for a certain period of time, the implementation of the rights granted to the Armenian people and the settlement of the Armenian Question, following the example of 1920-1921 and 1945.

We have addressed these programs in a number of speeches, publications, and analyses since 2010. Now we find it appropriate to repeat both the publications presenting Western programs and our previously prepared articles on these programs.

State of Armenia (Republic of Western Armenia)

September 22, 2025

Azerbaijan in Ralph Peters’ article and maps

 (Part 4)

In the article “A new map of the Middle East according to blood ties and similarities of faith” written by retired US Army officer Ralph Peters on June 6, 2006, the section on Azerbaijan is inserted into the already known section on Iran: “With crazy borders, Iran will cede part of its territory to a united Azerbaijan…” (1).

Since Ralph Peters used the phrase “territorial donation” in his article, let us also use it and note that Ralph Peters made “territorial donations” in favor of Azerbaijan. There are three of them:

1. The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is missing from the map, it is not indicated at all,
2. When expanding at the expense of the territories of Northern Iran, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Region “disappeared” in favor of Azerbaijan, of course, with all its legal and political consequences,
3. The territory of Northern Iran, the so-called South Atrpatakan, was also “allocated” to Azerbaijan as a “territorial donation.”

Now it is clear why Azerbaijani legislators were in such a hurry on February 1, 2012, when “a group of Azerbaijani deputies came up with the initiative to change the name of the country.” This is reported by lenta.ru. According to the parliamentarians, taking into account that the northern regions of Iran are inhabited by Azeris, it is necessary to “turn” the current Republic of Azerbaijan into the Republic of Northern Azerbaijan. The authors of this initiative are the deputies of the ruling “Yeni Azerbaijan” (“New Azerbaijan”) party in Azerbaijan. It should be noted that this proposal was voiced back in January by opposition deputy Hudrat Hasanguliyev, calling for “officially declaring that Azerbaijanis are a divided nation.” /Haynews.am, 01.02.2012 – 18:55/

Now it is also understandable why the Azerbaijanis turned to the US Senate on August 2, 2011 with a request to recognize their territorial integrity. “Seeing how the US Senate recognized the territorial integrity of Georgia with Resolution 175 and called Abkhazia and South Ossetia occupied territories, the Azerbaijanis decided to take this opportunity and now try their luck. Azerbaijan has appealed to the Senate with a request to recognize its territorial integrity and recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an occupied territory. According to Azerbaijani media, Baku has also urged their compatriots living abroad to write letters to the Senate demanding the adoption of a similar resolution.” /Asekose.am, 02/08/2011/ They appealed to the US Senate because the Azerbaijanis are probably also familiar with the article and map by retired US Army officer Ralph Peters and have assumed that the US is the guarantor not only of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, as Matthew Bryza stated in 2008 (2), but also of Azerbaijan’s expansion. (2)

Well, we don’t have to wait long for that, because the current rapid developments show that the consequences are not far off. On our part, let us only add that in the case of Azerbaijan, as in this whole great and dangerous game in the Middle East, several important legal and political factors related to Armenians and Armenia and Iran have again not been taken into account.

First, that the special commission of the Paris Assembly on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border demarcation adopted a report-proposal as early as February 24, 1920, which also directly concerns Nakhichevan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (3).

Second, that the Armenia-Iran border is of great importance for both states, because in all other directions, over the past decades, these two states have often been subjected to illegal and artificial blockades (4).

And third, that Atrpatakan is not Azerbaijan and it is not at all necessary that the ideas of the falsifiers of history be transferred and implemented in the same way in the pages of the new history of nations and states.

Let us also add that the magnitude of the risk and the dangerous absurdity of the proposed plan are also understood by the other parties.

Otherwise, how else to explain the signing of the Iran-Turkey-Azerbaijan memorandum (5), unless of course it pursued a long-term goal of calming and disorienting Iran.

Public initiative “The Covenant of Ararat” («Ուխտ Արարատի»), freedom fighters and former political prisoners of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia

March 16, 2012

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References

1. Ralph Peters, “Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look,” translation and preface in Azg newspaper, 25.08.2006.
2. Matthew Bryza, “We support Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity…,” PanARMENIAN.Net, 15.03.2008.
3. am, 02.08.2011
4. Ara Papyan, The Armenian-Azerbaijani Border (Expertise according to International Law), Oukht Ararati («Ուխտ Արարատի»), 2 (16), Nov-Dec 2008, http://oukhtararati.com
5. am, 08.03.2012