Iran Urges Baku To Stop Mossad’s Anti-Iran Espionage Operations

IRAN URGES BAKU TO STOP MOSSAD’S ANTI-IRAN ESPIONAGE OPERATIONS

asbarez
Monday, February 13th, 2012

TEHRAN, BAKU (Combined Sources)-Iran on Sunday called on Azerbaijan to
halt anti-Iran espionage operations by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence
agency, on Azeri soil.

Iran’s foreign ministry summoned Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Iran,
Javanshir Akhundov and demanded that Baku end facilitating Mossad’s
alleged spy activities in Azerbaijan.

“Some of the terrorists linked to the assassination of Iranian
nuclear scientists have travelled to Azerbaijan… [where they are]
facilitated to travel to Tel Aviv,” the Iran’s foreign ministry said
to explain its complaint against Baku.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry also protested what it called
“inappropriate behavior” by Azeri officials toward representatives
of Iranian institutions working in Azerbaijan, the “systematic
anti-Iran propaganda in the Azeri media” and called for an end to
“such unfriendly behavior towards Iran.”

On Monday, Azerbaijan rejected as “slander” Iranian claims that
Baku has been collaborating with Israel’s spy services and helping
assassins who have killed Iranian nuclear scientists.

The Azerbaijani foreign ministry condemned a protest note given to its
ambassador in Tehran which complained about the alleged collaboration.

The note demanded that Baku prevent Mossad from carrying out
anti-Iranian “activities” on its soil.

“This Iranian note is slander,” foreign ministry spokesman Elman
Abdullayev told AFP.

He described the Iranian complaint as a reaction to a formal protest
last month from Baku to Tehran after two men with alleged links to
Iranian intelligence were arrested on suspicion of plotting to kill
prominent Israelis in neighboring Azerbaijan.