Mon 14 November 2022:
The State Security Service of Azerbaijan announced on Monday the dismantling of an illegal Iranian spy network, ANadolu Agency reported.
The security service also added in a statement that five Azerbaijani individuals who were a member of the network had been detained for treason.
One of the citizens arrested worked as a captain in the country’s oil fleet in the Caspian Sea. He “collected information about companies and representative offices of foreign countries operating in Azerbaijan, the place and time of exercises conducted by the Azerbaijani Naval Forces, and cargo transported to oil platforms.”
According to reports, two other individuals captured images and recordings of locations where gas and oil pipelines passed, as well as the location of various military assets, and delivered them to Iranian intelligence.
The fourth person who was arrested allegedly shared details about the “political and social processes in Azerbaijan,” as well as information on the location, type and command level of Azerbaijani military units to the Iranian intelligence in exchange for money.
The fifth person allegedly determined the location of Azerbaijani citizens hiding in Iran.
The statement further said the closed WhatsApp groups operating “on the instructions of the Iranian special service” were exposed during the investigation conducted by the State Security Service.
These WhatsApp groups were trying to propagate “radical and religious-extremist ideas … aimed at the creation of a religious state in Azerbaijan.”
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