Yet another deceptive map of Iran

Some of you may have already read “Iran’s Waiting Game”, by Christopher Hitchens, in the July 2005 issue of Vanity Fair. But those who read it on the Internet might have missed the map of Iran that Vanity Fair inserted in Hitchens’ article in the magazine itself. Placed on page 48 and credited to a certain Joyce Pendola, it directly links the Iranian province of Azar-abadegan or Azarbaijan to our neighbor in the north, the former Soviet Republic self-styled as “Azerbaijan”: