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Azerbaijan an Ally of Israel in Iran Nuke Crisis
(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Katz - Foreign diplomats stationed in Azerbaijan said over the weekend that Azerbaijan, wedged in between Russia and Iran, was a strategic partner to the U.S. and Israel. "Azerbaijan regards militant political Islam as a threat to itself," a senior U.S. diplomat said. 20 million Azeris live in northern Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, who was leading a 100-person delegation to the country, said, "Azerbaijan takes its relationship with Israel very seriously and they could play a key role in the Iranian showdown."