On strategic issues, Sadadinov(ph) is worried that Azerbaijan might trytocurryfavorwith Washington by providing bases for a potential attack on neighboring Iran.
It was simply because the Republicans decided to play politics with a completely unrelated issue, in terms of the extension of the payroll tax cut, totryto I guess curryfavorwith some political constituency or the other when there was no way to, in accordance with tradition and regulation, to adequately and properly review a pipeline that would cross an international border.