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The first Karabakh war in the 1990s resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Azeris.

The adoption of "Iran" was also a statement of sovereignty and unity, embracing the country’s multi-ethnic composition, including Persians, Azeris, Kurds and others.

Soldiers speaking in the local Azeri language said: “There it is, we found it.”

Neither the Azeri government nor the presidential party were immediately available for comment.

Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally viewed as Azeri territory but had been run by ethnic Armenians since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, in a lightning military operation on Sept. 20.