Missiles are carried on a truck as an Iranian army band leader conducts the music band during Army Day parade at a military base in northern Tehran, April 17, 2024. (Photo: AP)
A photograph shows a trench at an Azerbaijan forces' base in Shusha, in Azerbaijan's controlled region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on September 23, 2023. (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/ AFP)
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (right) shaking hands with Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani in Baku, July 18, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (left) was received by Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Ali Akhmedov in Baku, July 18, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Fuad Hussein during his meeting with Azerbaijani Minister of Digital Development and Transportation Rashad Nabiyev in Baku, July 9, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) shaking hands with Azerbaijani Charge d'Affaires Nasir Mammadov in Erbil, June 7, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) shaking hands with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Feb. 18, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Iranian army equipment on the move during a military exercise in the country's northwest close to the Iranian-Azerbaijani border. (Photo: Iranian Army office / AFP)
