Wed 17 May 2023:
At least nine people who were believed to be working by Iran’s and Armenia’s secret services have been detained in Azerbaijan, Anadolu Agency reported.
“Seven members of the ‘Revenge 313’ group, Elgun Agayev, Ruslan Aliyev, Yusif Mirzayev, Elvin Jafarov, Savalan Huseynli, Bilal Sujaddinli, Maharrameli Musayev, as well as other members of the group, were detained and submitted for investigation,” the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
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It added that members of the group wrote radical religious slogans on the streets near government buildings, and shared their images on social media “with the aim of creating confusion among citizens.”
The ministry also mentioned Rufulla Akhundzade, and his son Almursal Akhundzade, who cooperated with the Iranian special services to organize armed riots in the country in order to “forcefully change the constitutional structure” of Azerbaijan.
The two people, it added, worked to organize assassination attempts, and devised a plan to establish gangs through secret groups on messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and others.
Akhundzade, it said, also planned to take the members of the group to Iran for “military training and illegal armed-extremist organizations in the name of receiving religious education.”
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In a separate statement, Azerbaijan’s State Security Service said two other citizens, Rashad Ahmadov and Rovshan Musa Amirov, were arrested on charges of working for Armenia’s special services and committing treason.
A number of incidents, including an assault on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran and military assistance to Armenia, have heightened tensions between Azerbaijan and Iran. Tehran, on the other hand, accuses Baku of working with Israel.
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