The unveiling ceremony of the documentary “Casts” was held at the Thoughts House with the participation of former Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan and Sina Hosseinpour, author and director of the documentary.
At the beginning of the ceremony, Mohsen Pakayin – a former Iranian Azeri in Azerbaijan – pointed out the difficulty of making such a documentary, saying: “Access to a series of documentation, especially the time of the Soviet collapse and the beginning of the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan, is very difficult and I think research and collection have been valuable.”
He continued: The second part of this documentary, Iran’s aid to the Republic of Azerbaijan, was very important, which I think has recently shown a very small portion of Iranian services to Azerbaijan. Iran’s services to the people of Nakhchivan during the late Hashemi Rafsanjani’s time.
Former Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan emphasized: There are points of view of Iranian ambassadors as well as Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani in this documentary, but the opinions of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution can also be added to this documentary; Because they announced important views on Azerbaijan and Nagorno -Karabakh.
“In part of this documentary, it seems that it has been passed through a series of early topics to shorten the work, in fact some of the topics are not understandable to the general audience, which should be explained in this film,” said Pakayin.
He added: “The media of the Republic of Azerbaijan will definitely seek to pull out the parts that are harmful and replace their narrative; Especially the part of the Nagorno -Karabakh should be more vibrant in order to avoid the excuse of these media.
In another part of the meeting, Salehfar, a Foreign Ministry retirees, said in a short speech: “This documentary was an exquisite work and I think it is time to have such documentation about the Kurdish climate.” The Kurdistan Region is one of the areas to be documented because Iran rescued the people of this area, especially during the time of ISIS, and the people of Kurdistan owe their lives to Iranians and martyr Suleimani.
Ramin Farhoudi, an expert in the Caucasus, said in a brief remuneration: The way Heydar Aliyev’s power in Azerbaijan, which is with the help of Iran, should be shown in other documentation; Also, historical documents of Iranian aid to Azerbaijan should be further expressed. Also in the story between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the role of Iran had to be shown.
In the final part of the ceremony, Sina Hosseinpour – Director of the Cassette Documentary – said of the difficulties of making this documentary: “We were negotiating with various institutions and organizations about making this documentary, but unfortunately none of us had enough support. I need to thank and appreciate the support of the Shahriar Media Institute and Mr. Abbaszadeh, the Honorable Director of the Institute, for supporting the production of this documentary. I need to say that all that has been made about Iran’s support for the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani authorities to Iran has been done, but it has not been possible to broadcast according to the documentary “Cassettes” and then it is possible to publish them.
He said: “Our concern was to address this before the second war of Nagorno -Karabakh, but because of the wrong analysis of the supporters, we were not done and many archives remained confidential.” The Nagorno -Karabakh war provided us the opportunity to remove the secret seal of many archives.
At the end of his remarks, he said: “The third part of our documentary has a drooping; We accept, because, given the audience of the documentary that the people of the Republic of Azerbaijan are, their issues are clear and we did not want to deal with it more.
It is worth mentioning. This documentary shows the background of the people and the Iranian government and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Of course, the principle of this documentary has been produced for the people of the Republic of Azerbaijan and has been formulated in a separate version of Persian for the Iranian audience.
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