NATO member Turkey’s consideration of a military base in Azerbaijan - which borders Russia - is yet another dangerous provocation by the Western military bloc.

Their problems prove that the common cause of Eurasian integration is a lot more difficult to achieve than to discuss.

Sides are forming around the Iran vs Azerbaijan squabble. But this fight is not about ethnicity, religion or tribe - it is mainly about who gets to forge the region's new transportation routes.

This edition of Spotlight is about Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s remarks about the presence of foreign powers in the region as the source of destruction and insecurity.

Azerbaijan’s undeclared special military operation against Armenia is the most destabilizing development to happen along Russia’s periphery since the latest US-provoked phase of the Ukrainian Conflict began in February.

Many have noted the suspicious and very convenient timing regarding Azerbaijan-Armenia hostilities which serve as an additional distraction for Russia amid its special military operation in Ukraine and its ongoing operations in Syria.

The prevailing narrative among both AMC and MSM is that US-backed Azerbaijan unilaterally attacked Russian-backed Armenia without provocation as part of the West’s Eurasian-wide full-spectrum proxy war against that Great Power.

Azerbaijan’s Huseynyun is the least known of all Shia resistance factions backed by Iran, but its profile is growing.