Day: August 5, 2025
The political establishment in Tehran is once again being tested—this time over the contentious Zangazur corridor and Iran’s evolving relationship with its northwestern neighbor, Azerbaijan. At the center of the latest storm is Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, whose recent statements advocating for de-escalation and regional integration have sparked fierce backlash from conservative circles and figures close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Back in Georgia.
Back in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/Z1lcG7egFB
— Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph) (@SouthCaucasus) August 5, 2025
In the annals of post-colonial statecraft, few moves have been as brazen, disruptive, and analytically revealing as India’s unilateral revocation of Article 370 on 5 August 2019. It was not merely a constitutional sleight of hand or a domestic policy decision, but it was a seismic shift in the regional power matrix, a strategic manoeuvre cloaked in nationalist populism, and a case study in how democracies can deploy legal instruments to enforce authoritarian aims.
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