Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan detained 39 people during a special operation for carrying out subversive activities on the territory of the country “under the guise of religion,” the Azerbaijani News Agency reports today, Wednesday. special operation carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 39 people were identified and detained, carrying out subversive activities in the territory of Azerbaijan under the guise of religious affiliation. According to the agency, “the detainees, who posed as believers, carried out Iran’s propaganda activities on social networks, violated religious freedom in the country and carried out orders from the Iranian (power) services.”
And according to what the Trend agency reported, last Tuesday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan carried out a special operation against a network affiliated with Iranian intelligence in the country, during which 7 people were arrested. According to the agency, the operation was carried out in Baku and other regions of the republic, including in the pro-Iranian media organizations Salam News and Inter Az. At the same time, no official information about the process was made public.
Iranian media reported yesterday that the security forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan launched a large-scale operation to uncover what Baku called Iran’s “spy network.” According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, this intensive process continues in Baku and other cities of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Earlier, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry recommended that its citizens refrain from traveling to Iran, unless they have an urgent need, in connection with the armed attack on the country’s embassy in Tehran on January 27. And the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry then stated that an armed attack had been carried out on the country’s embassy in Tehran, as a result of which the chief of security of the diplomatic mission was killed and two of his colleagues were wounded. For his part, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalaf confirmed that his country’s embassy had completely stopped diplomatic activity, but the consulate general in the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran continues to work.
