Heydar Aliyev, the former president of Azerbaijan, was the first who developed relations of Azerbaijan with Iran, Turan Afshar Suleymani, the Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan told Trend.
Heydar Aliyev played a significant role in development of good-neighborhood relations between the two countries. В"Now the President Ilham Aliyev follows the path of the national leader. Services of Heydar Aliyev, the outstanding politician will never fall into oblivion. Iranian people will retain in their memory inestimable role of Heydar Aliyev in strengthening the Iranian-Azerbaijani relations, said Iranian diplomat.
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