The Azerbaijani mass media are savoring the anti-Iranian canard set afloat by the Israeli special services: the TU-154 plane that crashed in Iran was carrying arms for Hezbollah.

The first media report was by the Italian Corriere della Sera, which referred to its sources in the Middle East. According to the sources, the plane making the Tehran-Yerevan flight was carrying not only passengers, but also arms and ammunition. The sources claim that the cargo was to be transported to Turkey and then to southern Lebanon through Syria by land.

The Israeli and Azerbaijani analysts thoroughly examining this ridiculous version hardly consider the insignificant fact that arms can be delivered from Armenia to Turkey only through Georgia as the Armenian-Turkish border is blocked due to the efforts of Azerbaijan itself. This, however, is not the most important thing. What is difficult to understand is that such a tortuous, circular route through Armenia, Georgia and Turkey was worked out to deliver arms from Iran to Syria, with Iran actually bordering on Turkey, and Teheran and Damascus having a close dialogue. Does it make sense for the Iranian suppliers of arms to Hezbollah to involve third countries, namely, Georgia in this scheme?

Now let Israel and Azerbaijan, which have recently held common positions, scheming against Iran, have it on their conscience. We should pay our attention to the “heroic struggle” waged by the press services of various Armenian agencies. All the efforts made by NEWS.am to receive any clear comments on the charge of the traffic of arms to the Middle East brought against Armenia proved to be futile. It is not even the matter of arms. Rather, the real causes of the passengers’ death must be found out.

But the ill luck is that the press service of the Department of Civil Aviation, RA Government, decided to go on holiday in a body! As regards the other press services, their silence suggests they have done the same. And what about the country’s reputation and the victims’ relatives? Let them wait a little…