New Alleged Hezbollah-Iran Joint Terror Operations in Azerbaijan
Sibel Edmonds, Boiling Frogs Post, Feb 22 2012
Azerbaijan claims it has ‘again’ busted another Iranian terror cell, but is refusing to provide any evidence or details. According to the report by the country’s state-run AzTV, on Feb 21 a terrorist cell operated by IRG and Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had been discovered and dismantled. Allegedly the busted group, with guns and explosives, were planning attacks on ‘unspecified’ foreign nationals. Despite reporters’ attempts the Azeri government refrained from providing any additional information:
Speaking to EurasiaNet.org, a spokesperson for Azerbaijan’s Ministry of National Security refused either to confirm or to deny the station’s report. Strangely, pro-government and state-run news sites have proven similarly skittish about delving into the AzTV report; no news about the arrests could be found on any of these websites on the morning of Feb 22.
Strangely enough, to back up the story AzTV aired footage of terrorist arrests from an incident that occurred in 2008! This new development appears to follow the very same pattern as Azerbaijan’s claim on the ‘alleged’ assassination plot against Israeli officials in Azerbaijan by an Iran-Sponsored terrorist group last month. Earlier today APA news agency reported new details about this latest alleged Iranian terror operation. Supposedly, the terrorist group operated under two ringleaders: “Hamid” for IRG, and “Haji Abbas” for an armed wing of Hezbollah, Mugavimat. This is supposed to establish the collaborative effort between the Iranian government and Hezbollah:
The Ministry of National Security disarmed a terrorist group of the Iranian intelligence agency “Sepah” and “Hezbollah” in Azerbaijan. The group members are accused of gathering reconnaissance materials, illegally acquiring weapons, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices, and preparing to commit an act of terrorism. A group of persons were detained in Azerbaijan over the last several days. Member of Nardaran local authority K N Karimov told APA that the majority of those detained were residents of Baku villages, especially Nardaran. They are accused of establishing an armed unit, illegal keeping of weapons, betrayal of the motherland and drug trafficking.
Earlier this month Boiling Frogs Post reported on Iran’s formal rebuke to Azerbaijan for housing and accommodating Israeli intelligence agents and assassins to execute assassination plots against Iranian nuclear scientists. Azerbaijan denied the accusations by the Iranian government. It is also important to note that intimate US-NATO ally Azerbaijani Pres Aliyev visited NATO HQ in Brussels on Feb 15 and has also met with Israeli Pres Peres and US Sec State Clinton over the past few weeks. Boiling Frogs Post has been the only news site closely monitoring and reporting these developments in the US war on Iran operations’ Caucasus front. You can read our previous reports here, here, here and here.
