Azerbaijan Detains 32 Members of Iranian Spy Network

| News, Politics, Azerbaijan

On March 13, citing data from law enforcement agencies of the republic pro-government APA news agency reported that as a result of special operational measures carried out by the security services, 32 people were identified and detained in Azerbaijan who were engaged in subversive work and subversive activities under the guise of religion.

"Detained through social networks, in places of worship, at other ceremonies where people gathered, abusing freedom of religion, carried out propaganda in favor of Iran, carried out tasks from abroad to undermine the traditions of tolerance that had developed in Azerbaijan," the publication added.

"The attackers announced the creation of the state of 'Karima' and made open calls for a violent change in the existing constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan. These persons, who carried out orders from foreign intelligence services, provoked unrest and unrest in society and propagated religious radicalism. The investigation revealed that they spent large sums of money received from the sale of narcotic drugs sent from the Islamic Republic of Iran to promote religious radicalism in Azerbaijan and finance other subversive activities," APA claimed.

Notably, pro-Iran clerics have actively used the "Karima" state narrative against Azerbaijan. The expression of the state of Karima is used in the "Iftitah prayer," which is said to have been narrated by Muhammad ibn Osman al-Amri, one of the four special viceroys of Imam Mahdi and is recommended to be recited in the month of Ramadan. In that prayer, God wishes for a state of grace in which "Islam and Muslims will be glorified, and the dissidents and hypocrites will be humiliated." It is emphasized that in that state, people will be granted "the grace of this world and the hereafter." Religious literature states that this state will be founded by Imam Mehdi, who will appear after the "great gossip."

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