Washington has finally begun to confront a truth it spent three decades avoiding. The legislative scaffolding built by the Armenian lobby to constrain Azerbaijan is cracking, not because of sudden goodwill, but because geopolitical reality has caught up with old political games. Today, as Amendment 907 once again returns to the center of debate, the United States is being forced to acknowledge that the amendment has long served as an instrument of bias, not a tool of strategy. And the façade is coming down at a moment when peace in the South Caucasus depends on clarity, not fiction.

For more than thirty years, Article 907 functioned as a political weapon disguised as legislation. Introduced in 1992 at the height of the Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territories, it was marketed as moral pressure while conveniently ignoring the much darker context of occupation, forced displacement, and ethnic cleansing carried out against Azerbaijanis. The amendment did not emerge from principled foreign policy. It emerged from the overwhelming influence of a pro-Armenian political elite in Congress that used legislative power to shield Armenia from accountability.

In the 2000s, Washington quietly waived Article 907 in exchange for Azerbaijan’s cooperation in the energy sector and regional security. Yet under the Biden administration, which adopted a distinctly cold attitude toward Baku, the old mechanism was revived and transformed into a punitive instrument once more. Instead of recalibrating relations based on geopolitical realities, the administration allowed dated........

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