Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan detained 39 people during a special operation for carrying out subversive activities on the territory of the country “under the guise of religion,” according to the Azerbaijan News Agency, in Azerbaijan under the guise of religion.”
According to the agency, “the detainees, posing as believers, carried out Iranian propaganda activities on social networks, violated religious freedom in the country, and carried out instructions from the Iranian special services.”
And according to the Trend agency, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan carried out a special operation against a network affiliated with Iranian intelligence in the country, during which 7 people were arrested. According to the agency, the operation was carried out in Baku and other regions of the republic, including in the pro-Iranian media organizations Salam News and Inter Az. At the same time, no official information about the process was made public.
Earlier, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry recommended that its citizens refrain from traveling to Iran, unless they have an urgent need, in connection with the armed attack on the country’s embassy in Tehran on January 27.