Apprehensions are voiced more often lately over possible attack against Iran by the US. Open threats by Washington, as well as Teheran pursuing a hard-edged policy increase this alarm. Taking into account Armenia neighboring Iran, the good naborly relations between us, as well as the presence of a many-million Azerbaijani population in it, Yerevan, of course, cannot remain indifferent to the growing tension in the region. Political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan answers these and other questions of PanARMENIAN.Net.

The old-age events still attract historians' attention. Various versions of the events that took place at the beginning of the 20th century in Ottoman Turkey, Soviet Russia and Armenia can be heard nowadays. The map of the region could be quite different now PanARMENIAN.Net requested specialist on Turkic peoples, Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University Professor Mikhail Mayer for some comments.