Teheran – An antisemitic cartoon depicting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev with a huge nose and side locks, wearing a yarmulke, is circulating on Iranian social media.
This cartoon is part of a larger campaign of Iranian anti-Azerbaijan content; the two predominantly Shiite countries have been at odds for decades, although they maintain embassies in each other’s capital cities.
The campaign has also included propaganda anti-Israel videos circulated by Iran in Azerbaijani.
Azerbaijan has classically aligned its interests with the West – particularly the United States and Israel – providing Iranian propagandists with ample reason to give their work an antisemitic twist.
