BAKU. Feb 7 (Interfax) - Baku views as absurd a statement by an Iranian presidential candidate, Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi, that Azerbaijan is Iranian territory and should be reintegrated with Iran.
"We will not comment on ridiculous and absurd statements," Azeri Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayevv told Interfax on Thursday.
Iranian media earlier quoted Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi, the head of the Iranian branch of Hezbollah, who earlier declared his intention to run for president in June 2013, as saying while speaking to his voters that Iran would regain Azerbaijan, Armenia and Tajikistan, which he described as its breakaway territories, and that this will be the main item on his election program.
Kharrazi did not specify whether he considers the whole territories of these countries or only parts of them Iran's breakaway territories, but he emphasized that this will be done without bloodshed.