Iran's role in expansion of Republic of Azerbaijan and Israel's Ties Unified Management and Littoral Region of the Caspian Sea

Israel and Republic of Azerbaijan as countries with a large geographical distance and great religious, language and cultural differences have close and extensive ties in various fields particularly security- political. To understand the reason of these close and extensive ties, in addition to common interest of two countries from this relationship, it’s necessary to notice an external factor that is Iran and their common perception of threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran. In Fact Israel and Republic of Azerbaijan perceive Iran as a threat to their interests. Perception of this common threat leads them to shape extensive military- security and political- economic ties. This is the main question of the article: why in spite of geographical distance and cultural, religious and language differences there are considerable ties between the two countries? To answer this question the authors use defensive realism theory. They believe that Republic of Azerbaijan and Israel based on a common understanding of interest and concern of common threat from Islamic Republic of Iran extend their ties to create a balance of power against it.