Under the lengthy headline “They reported the truth about corruption in Azerbaijan. Now they’re in prison”, the author talks about the arrests of journalists in Azerbaijan, calling them “unlawful”. In the same article, the author particularly focuses on the decision of the Azerbaijani authorities to close the USAID office in Baku due to constant interference in internal processes and the intention to stir up another protest movement at a time when the country is entering another pre-election period.
Obviously, this article is another attempt to threaten and put pressure on the Azerbaijani authorities at the time of the arrival of the new US ambassador, as if to warn the Azerbaijani authorities that they had better come to an understanding with the new ambassador.
It was for this purpose that the Americans translated their article into Azerbaijani and disseminated it through their puppet USAID, the US embassy in Azerbaijan and the local sponsored journalists. It is hardly likely that so many journalists in Azerbaijan check The Washington Post every day for anti-Azerbaijani articles. And this incident once again proves that the Azerbaijani authorities made the right decision when they shut down USAID.
Nothing to add here. Clearly, the Americans’ dirty political strategies have not been updated for a long time, as well as the guidelines they distribute to their proxies in Azerbaijan through USAID.
But we would like to point out one particularly interesting comment under the article by an American reader under the nickname stk4life:
This impartial reader reminds the editors that the same things this article describes are happening in the southern states of America, not some faraway place of no interest to the average American.
Our response to the American newspaper, which has had a tabloid stink for a long time, is the well-known saying: “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
Of course, it would be of much more benefit to the Americans themselves if their journalists wrote about their own problems and the disaster that is currently taking place in the United States with illegal immigration and the unprecedented spread of drugs, especially among young people. We can sort out our country on our own.
As for the possible influence of this kind of libel on the decisions of the Azerbaijani authorities to close USAID, one can only feel sorry for the Americans who have not yet figured out that the head of Azerbaijan always makes balanced and final decisions, and this kind of pressure does not affect these decisions in any way.
Ramella Ibrahimkhalilova
Translated from Minval.az
