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An Iranian handmade carpet was presented as Azerbaijani one in a book recently published in Azerbaijan, Ali Vandshoari, Head of Carpet Faculty at Tabriz Islamic Art University, was quoted as saying by Iran’s IRNA news agency.

At  a meeting of the Eastern Atrpatakan carpet making assistance office, the Iranian art expert said when commenting on attempts to appropriate works of Iranian art and present them as their own, that in Iran too, some books came out presenting, for example,  a Tabriz carpet as one made in Isfahan or Kashan.   

Serious disagreements arose between Iran and Azerbaijan in recent years concerning some cultural and historical issues. According to Iran, in addition to portraying Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi and Nadir Shah as ‘Azerbaijanis’, an attempt is being made to claim that some musical instruments, polo, and Shab-e-Yalda festival as those that originated in Azerbaijan.

An illustrated book, in which Iranian miniatures were presented as Azerbaijani ones, was displayed by Azerbaijan at Milan Expo 2015 held in November of last year. 

Prior to that, Azerbaijan’s History Museum tried to present a flag that Abbas Mirza gave Nakhijevan’s Khan in appreciation of his actions at the Battle of Aslanduz (1812) as a sample of Azerbaijani historical heritage.