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Azerbaijan in row with Iran over 'Israeli spies' | ||
2012-02-14 | ||
Azerbaijan has angrily denied an Iranian claim that it has been helping Israeli spies plotting against Iran.
Azerbaijan's foreign ministry called Iran's claim "slander". On Sunday Iran had summoned the Azeri ambassador and given him a protest note. An Azeri foreign ministry spokesman, Elman Abdullayev, said the Iranian protest was an "absurd reaction" to Azerbaijan's protest last month over an alleged plot by Iranian agents to kill Israelis in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has friendly ties with Israel and the US, who Azeri-Iranian relations have long been strained over the large ethnic Azeri minority in northern Iran. The Iranian protest note to Azerbaijan on Sunday asked the Azeri government to "stop the activities of the Mossad intelligence services in that country against Iran", Iran's Irna news agency said. Azeri ambassador Cavansir Akhundov was told that "some of the terrorists linked with the terror of Iranian scientists" had travelled to Azerbaijan and then on to Israel "for co-operation with the spying network of the Zionist regime", Irna reported. The Azeri spokesman insisted on Monday that Azerbaijan "will not permit any external interference or any terrorist activity on its territory". | ||
Posted by:Steve White |
#1 Interesting. Hot on the heels of a MOSSAD agent saying that Azerbaijan was "spy central", or words to that effect. Something fairly deep is going on here. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-14 08:20 |