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How should Iran respond to protests by Azerbaijani people against the ban on hijab in schools in the country?

How should Iran react to the protests of the people of Azerbaijan against the prohibition of the hijab in the schools of this country?

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan, Khorasan wrote: In a situation where Interior Minister Iskandar Momeni has traveled to Baku at the invitation of his Azerbaijani counterpart, many streets of the Republic of Azerbaijan have become the scene of protests against the prohibition of hijab in schools, and dozens of classrooms have been closed at the same time as veiled students and teachers have been prevented from entering schools.

The spark of these protests started from School No. 69 in Baku and "Bey Sharif" Secondary School in Mulavaba village, in Masali County, and has spread to other schools in the last three days.

About 65% of the Muslims of the Republic of Azerbaijan are Shia, which is about 6.5 million people. In addition, more than 30% of the country's population is Sunni, and more than 96% of the country's population is Muslim.

The political system of this country, which arose from the collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 90s, is a secular non-democratic (dictatorship) system that has established extensive relations with the Zionist regime in recent years. An issue that has practically turned this country into a security threat for Iran, and we saw that during the 12-day war, the skies of this country were at the disposal of the Zionists to carry out assassinations and bombardment of Tehran.

It would have been better for the diplomatic system to have at least postponed the visit of the country's minister to Baku by observing the protests in this country.

Anyway, Iran should not be indifferent to the feelings and actions of the Muslim nations of the region; That too, in a situation where the activation and increase of the influence of Muslims and especially the Shiites of this country can help to reduce the security and political threats against Iran.

In addition, the government must justify the public opinion regarding the intensification of relations with Nizam Aliyev. The number of calls, the continuation of face-to-face meetings, and especially the repeated appreciations of the Iranian president to Ilham Aliyev, raise a serious question about the logic and goals of the government's policy towards Baku.

The issue is not only the principle of establishing diplomatic relations with a neighboring country, but how to regulate the level and depth of these relations in the circumstances that foreign reports tell about the security and military cooperation of that country with the party involved in the war against Iran.