Iranian Diplomat Warns of Zionists' Creeping Infiltration into South
Caucasus
News number: 9010176474 15:05 | 2012-02-28
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Yerevan Seyed Ali Saqqaeeyan warned of
the Zionist regime's creeping infiltration into the South Caucasus region
through its movements in Azerbaijan.

"The movements of the enemies of region in the Republic of Azerbaijan show
the Zionists and aliens' creeping infiltration into the South Caucasus
region," Saqqaeeyan said at Yerevan's state university on Tuesday.

He also blamed Britain for sparking regional conflicts and differences among
the countries of the region based on the old saying, 'divide and rule'.

Earlier, a senior Iranian legislator had also blasted Baku's cooperation
with the Israeli and the US spy agencies, and warned that such collaboration
in the aggressive plots against other countries will be detrimental to
Azerbaijan.

"Azerbaijan's cooperation with the US and Israeli spy agencies will harm the
Azeri people and we have attained some conclusions for which the Azeri
officials should account," Vice-Chairman of the parliament's National
Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmayeel Kosari told FNA on
Wednesday.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran possesses a number of documents based on which
the Azeri officials have helped the Mossad and the CIA agents and this
action of theirs has led to the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists,
specially martyr Ahmadi Roshan, by the agents of those (spy) agencies," he
added.

The London Times had reported earlier this month that Israel is using
Azerbaijan, a small Eurasian country which shares a border with Iran, as a
base to spy on the Tehran government.

The newspaper cited the testimony of an anonymous Mossad agent referred to
only as Shimon.

"This is ground zero for intelligence work," Shimon told the Times. "Our
presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in
the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran. This (Azerbaijan) is a
wonderfully porous country."

According to Shimon the Azerbaijan-Iran border, just a few hours south of
the capital Baku, is prime territory for the Israeli intelligence service to
gather information on Tehran's activities.

"There is a great deal of information there from people who regularly and
freely travel across the borders. It is unregulated - almost," said Shimon.

Azerbaijan is a major energy producer and exports oil to Israel and imports
weapons and military hardware in return from Israel.

According to the Times, Israel has been able to capitalize on a decline in
relations between Azerbaijan and Iran.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry earlier this month summoned Azeri Ambassador to
Tehran Javanshir Akhundov to protest at Baku for sheltering several
Mossad-trained terrorists who had assassinated the Iranian scientists.

In January and in the fifth attack of its kind in two years, a magnetic bomb
was attached to the car of 32-year-old Ahmadi Roshan in the capital, Tehran.
His driver was also killed in the terrorist attack.

The blast took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian
university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was
also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.

The assassination method used in the January bombing was similar to the 2010
terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun
Abbassi Davani - who is now the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization -
and his colleague Majid Shahriari. While Abbasi Davani survived the attack,
Shahriari was martyred.

Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated
through the same method on 23 July 2011.

Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi underscored that the US,
Israeli and British spy agencies were involved in the recent terrorist
attacks against the Iranian scientists.