it is quite evident for any sane person that the Armenians (there are significant Armenian communities in the Arab world - many fled and were welcomed by Arabs during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire - as far as KSA - they are mainly based in Lebanon though and overall have not been a problem - similarly we have many more Turkmen (actually mostly Azerbaijanis not Turkmen from Turkmenistan in Arab countries like Iraq and Syria and even also in KSA and elsewhere) were the aggressors in the early 1990's and that they committed horrible massacres against Azeri people.
Religion here is irrelevant when it comes to determining who is in the wrong albeit every conflict tends to be complex and multilayered.
I also don't understand how sane persons (apparently) can equal entire peoples and countries with ruling regimes.
Also it is not about Sunni or Shia - there are many Sunni Azerbaijanis (most sources claim 35-40% of the population) and there are even Muslim Armenians in the Arab world.
Iran like usual (since 1979 - most of the time) have had a double-faced regional policy and duplicitous and mostly negative one. Wherever they have meddled mostly only misery has followed.
Which is absurd considering the fact that Azeris are the second largest ethnic group in Iran, majority Shia Muslim etc.
But anyone familiar with Iranian history since the Safavids and their forceful conversions and familiar with internal Iranian dynamics and the Iranian regime since 1979 will now that contradictions is the key word and description for that regime and their policies.
And truth be told many Armenians unfortunately have anti-Muslim sentiments (mostly aimed at Turks for historical reasons that most people know about), even the Armenians that were welcomed by Arab Muslims and now live in Arab countries.
A good example is this Armenian Syrian pro-Al-Assad regime troll
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who had the audacity some time ago (1.5-2 years ago - I even countered him directly) and claimed that Armenians have more of an ownership of Syria than Arabs despite Arabs being indigenous to the Levant and having an over 3000 + year old recorded presence in Syria itself.
To no surprise that troll is an Iranian regime fanboy, Russia fanboy and anti-current Syrian government. For some strange reason he is not anti-Arab overall (anti-KSA for example) but that does not make him any less of a hypocrite.
Unfortunately such Armenians (loud mouths) damage the reputations of Armenians who overall share a lot with us Middle Easterners/West Asians.
Can we stop equating online idiots with Shia Islam and Shias? There are millions of normal Shia Muslims, Shia Arabs, Saudi Arabian Shias who are nothing like this. Suffice to say that Shia Islam and all its sects originate in modern-day KSA and that the doctrinal differences are overall small despite some obvious disagreements with mainstream Islam and Muslims (90% - Sunni Islam).
It is just that a sizable portion of Shias nowadays have some kind of sickness (cult) where they equate the Iranian regime with some holy regime and take them as literal Gods. So whatever Iran does, they have to support whether it is carpet bombing innocent civilians in Syria or even Iranian support against Shia Muslims (Azeris) themselves.
I have dealt with such Shia Arabs (luckily a tiny minority) in person and online and I have concluded that they are out of any pedagogical reach like other cultists. Reason does not work with them and they also shamelessly and falsely equate Iran (the state) with Shia Islam itself which is also as cultish and nonsensical.
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