From February 2008, the first time that they were exposed in Azerbaijan to an attempt to carry out an attack against the Israeli Embassy in Azerbaijan, the Iranians acted together with other nationalities, normally Lebanese, and, in many other cases, like in Cyprus, they recruited Lebanese that are residing outside of Iran and Lebanon carrying passports such as Swedish, Turkish and Pakistani. In that case, they have what we call a kind of a “deniability,” the capability to say “this is not our people.”
If you look back over the last 20 years, you’ll see that they normally recruit Shiites Muslims that have double identities.
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According to the information we received, there was a shooting at the state border with Iran last night. How true is this information?
- We encounter such situations almost every day. Yes, drug smugglers tried to cross the state border again yesterday. At night, border troops of the State Border Service prevented the introduction of narcotics into the country in the service territory of the “Horadiz” Border Detachment. Several people tried to cross the border into the territory of the country, they did not obey the legal request of the border guard and opened fire on the border guard. Weapons were used against them, and the border violators ran back, taking advantage of the complex terrain and the dark weather. 63.5 kg of drugs belonging to them were found at the scene. At the moment, search operations are ongoing.
It is an irrefutable fact that the special services of the Islamic Republic of Iran also use drug smuggling in their activities directed against Azerbaijani statehood. There are also facts that people involved in this criminal activity were later forced to perform the tasks of special service agencies in various ways.