Azerbaijanis Flow Into Iran To Buy Food
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As food prices rise around the globe, more than 3,000 Azerbaijanis cross the border into Iran each day to buy basic foods that have become prohibitively expensive in their own country. The Astara border checkpoint is ill-equipped to deal with the numbers, and people spend hours stuck behind iron bars or in huge crowds. RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service