{"id":51024,"date":"2012-02-13T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=51024"},"modified":"2023-04-06T00:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:34:59","slug":"baku-hub-for-israelis-spying-on-iran-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/02\/13\/baku-hub-for-israelis-spying-on-iran-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Baku hub for Israelis spying on Iran: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Azeri President Ilham Aliyev (L) embraces Israeli President Shimon Peres.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“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 is a wonderfully porous country.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Azerbaijan-based Israeli spy<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

An Israeli intelligence agent has reportedly admitted that Azerbaijan, Iran\u2019s northwestern neighbor, is \u201cteaming with\u201d Mossad agents who are trying to collect intelligence on the Islamic Republic.<\/strong><\/div>\n

\u201cThis (Azerbaijan) is ground zero for intelligence work,”<\/strong>\u00a0The Times of London\u00a0<\/em>quoted an Azerbaijan-based Israeli intelligence agent named \u201cShimon\u201d as saying on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“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 is a wonderfully porous country,\u201d JPost quoted Shimon as saying.<\/p>\n

Secret documents released by WikiLeaks last April revealed that Israel had been using the former Soviet republic’s soil over the past four years to spy on Iran.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The document in the US Embassy in Baku, sent to Washington in January 2009, refers to a visit by the Azeri president’s advisor for security and defense issues, Vahid Aliyev, to Israel.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the WikiLeaks cable, the trip was aimed at signing a contract with Tel Aviv which allowed Israel to use Azerbaijan’s soil for its spying activities against Iran. The US diplomatic cable further discloses an arms deal between the two sides.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the leaked cables, Azerbaijani authorities banned all anti-Israeli protest gatherings anywhere near Tel Aviv’s Embassy in Baku during the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2009.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prior to the leak, there were reports about the operations of Israeli spying cells on the Iranian-Azeri border under the cover of farming activities.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Separatist groups and members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization are also freely operating within Azerbaijan’s borders.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

www.presstv.com,\u00a0Feb 12, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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 is a wonderfully porous country.” Azerbaijan-based Israeli spy An Israeli intelligence agent has reportedly admitted that Azerbaijan, Iran\u2019s northwestern neighbor, is \u201cteaming with\u201d Mossad agents who are trying to collect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":51025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,62,148],"tags":[905],"class_list":["post-51024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-iran_","category-israel","tag-mossad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}