in Russian – http://crossroadorg.info/wa-21-9-2025-3/
in Armenian – http://crossroadorg.info/hy/wa-21-9-2025-3-hy/
in French – http://crossroadorg.info/en/wa-21-9-2025-3-fr/
(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
Iran in Ralph Peters’ Article and Maps
(Part 3)
In the article “Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look,” written on June 6, 2006 by retired U.S. Army officer Ralph Peters, the section concerning Iran states: “Iran, with its insane boundaries, would lose part of its territory to a United Azerbaijan, a Free Kurdistan, an Arab Shia State, and a Free Baluchistan. But it would gain the Afghan provinces of Herat, which have historical and linguistic ties to Persia. Thus Iran would become an ethnically pure Persian state. The only question is the port of Bandar Abbas: should it belong to the Arab Shia State? That is a difficult issue.” (1)
All this, in turn, means that the process called the “Arab Spring,” accompanied by the redrawing of Arab states’ borders, which essentially implies their fragmentation, will, starting from Iran, be accompanied by millions upon millions of forced displacements. This could sweep away almost all natural and artificial borders of the states neighboring Iran, as well as their statehood. This means that this part of the Middle East will be plunged for a long time into a quagmire of interethnic and religious clashes, chaos, contradictions, instability, disorder, and anarchy. An interesting question arises: the expert community makes proposals, but who will bear responsibility? The political elite?
However, let us note that here as well, just as in the case of the Armenians of Syria (2), the rights of Armenians living in Iran are ignored. For Ralph Peters and his expert group, Armenians and Armenia seem not to exist at all in the Middle East region. This is why once again, as in the Syrian case, we must examine the main challenges facing the Armenians of Iran. And these are threefold: first, when Iran is in internal political crisis; second, when Iran is subjected to external aggression; and third, when the Armenians of Iran, like other peoples of the country, are forced into displacement. For the first two cases, the National Council of Western Armenia had already, in the past year, anticipated and enshrined clear legal and political means and mechanisms to overcome such threats. They were formulated in the special decision adopted on March 29, 2011 by the National Council of Western Armenia: “On the Permanent, Armed, Positive Neutrality of the Armenians of Western Armenia.”
Taking into account the possible outbreak of internal political crisis in the given country (Iran, Syria, or any other Middle Eastern state), Article 3 of the decision of the National Council of Western Armenia states: “3. The Armenians of Western Armenia, including the population of the Armenian diaspora, have the right not to participate in aggressive wars, coups, interethnic and interreligious clashes, as well as in the so-called clashes of civilizations, and the violence, massacres, and genocides arising from them, as well as in chaotic conditions provoked or directed, in accordance with the Hague Convention V of October 18, 1907 ‘On the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land’.”
Taking into account possible aggression against the given country (Iran, Syria, or any other Middle Eastern state), Article 4 of the above-mentioned decision of the National Council of Western Armenia states: “4. The Armenians of Western Armenia, including the population of the Armenian diaspora, have the right to defend themselves from successive violence, attacks, deportations, and massacres, as well as to defend the country of their residence from external attacks, in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, which emphasizes ‘the inherent right of individual and collective self-defense’.”
Moreover, in logical continuation of these decisions, on December 26, 2011 another decree was signed: “On the Creation of the National System for Self-Defense and Security.”
Regarding the third threat, forced displacement, the following proposal has been developed: if, nevertheless, Armenians are forced to emigrate, then they have no other place left to retreat to except their historical homeland, with all the legal and political consequences (3). There already exists the experience of 500,000 Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan, for whom the international community bore no responsibility, and we could not protect the rights of the Armenians of Azerbaijan. That same infamous experience, with the same failures and omissions, we no longer have the right to allow.
This is precisely what Ralph Peters and his expert group did not take into account, once again placing the U.S. State Department in an awkward position.
American expert thought, like that represented by Ralph Peters, repeatedly places the U.S. State Department in an uncomfortable situation. For example, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, when it turned out there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, when during the Georgian-Ossetian war it turned out that the Ossetians had sufficient potential, desire, and will to fight for independence and sovereignty; or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when it turned out that American Middle East programs had not taken into account the real scale of the humanitarian crisis and its actual responsible parties, nor the rights and interests of Armenians living in the region.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not guilty that she is constantly forced to give evasive answers to questions related to the Armenian Genocide, because American expert thought has not taken into account, has ignored, and has bypassed the rights and interests of Armenians in the Middle East — leading to the theoretical possibility of transferring Mount Ararat to the Republic of Armenia. The neglect of the rights of the Armenians and Armenia was in itself sufficient reason for the Armenian-Turkish protocols to be doomed to failure from the start, and for similar programs in the near future to be doomed as well.
Therefore, it is correct to say that for U.S. foreign policy in general, and for the State Department in particular, the urgent problem is the change and renewal of expert groups and expert thinking. Without this, the emergence of new, fresh thinking in U.S. foreign policy is impossible, whether in the Middle East or in any other part of the world.
It is evident that many do not understand, or pretend not to understand, the real scale of threats directed at the countries and peoples of the Middle East, including the Armenians and Armenia, as well as their consequences. But this does not mean that the new Armenian legal and political thought, aimed at overcoming threats, has no right to develop and take root among us.
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 13, 2012
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References
- Ralph Peters, Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look, Armed Forces Journal, June 2006.
- See: “Syria in Ralph Peters’ Article and Maps.” 27.02.2012, http://oukhtararati.com/
- See: “Armenians Have No Other Place Left to Retreat Except Their Homeland,” 14.02.2012, http://oukhtararati.com/