Tehran/Moscow- After the Israeli attack on Iran On June 13, which lasted 12 days, crucial questions have emerged in Tehran On the paths of air and missile strikes, while security and popular reports were frequently about the penetration of Israeli fighters and fighters, Iranian airspace in terms of the northern border, which led to some political circles to the fingers of accusation to Baku as the capital AzerbaijanAs it is the closest ally of Israel in the Caucasus.
While the Persian press, after the Israeli aggression, has been publishing reports indicating that Israel used the Azerbaijani airspace as a launching platform or a corridor of its drones and its fighters, the Iranian ambassador revealed in Armenia Mahdi Sabhani, that Tehran has obtained “information” that Israeli march planes infiltrated Iranian territory across the northern border.
In a step indicating the level of seriousness that Tehran deals with this evidence, the Iranian president called Masoud Bouchakian With his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham AliyevDemanding an accurate investigation and submitting an official report on the incident, while Baku officially denied all these allegations.
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“It seems that the Azerbaijani denial did not convince Iranian decision -makers, as the field evidence, as well as the path of diplomatic relations between Baku andTel Aviv In recent years, it shows a deep strategic alliance that is difficult to ignore when discussing this event. “
While the newspaper “Kayhan”, which is close to the office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, said that “the vast majority of the attacks targeting the capital, Tehran, and the city of Karaj, came from it came from a direction Caspian SeaWith the exploitation of the airspace of the northern neighborhood of Iran, specifically the atmosphere of Azerbaijan.
“Since Tehran was the most prominent goal of the attacks of the Zionist entity, which requires the need to deal seriously with this neighboring country to prevent the recurrence of the same scenario in the future,” she added.
For his part, the Iranian researcher in the affairs of the Southern Caucasus, Hamid Khusraoshi, revealed that the Iranian border police in the cities of Natein and Nahmi – northwest of the country – monitored and documented Israeli marches across the Azerbaijani border, and have dropped a number of them.
Khusroshi told Al -Jazeera Net that there are popular and security reports in Iran indicating the entry of Israeli fighter bodies and fighters to Iranian airspace from the Caspian Sea, linking this with the daily Israeli attacks on the city of Tabriz – northwest – to open an air corridor to cross Israeli aircraft from northern airspace Iraq To Azerbaijan, passing through the Caspian Sea, then attacking the goals of northern Iran, the cities of Tehran and Carag, south of the Albrez mountain range.
He stated that Baku’s document relations with Tel Aviv and Samahjan are the activity of Israeli companies in smart industrial towns, built in the liberated Azerbaijani areas during a war. Qara Bagh Just off the Iranian city of Khadda Afrin, the Iranian side is sensitive, not to mention Tehran’s monitoring of hostile movements from Israeli companies from the “Keremesi Kasbah” area near Baku, known to be the second Israel.
Upon his indication of the production of Israeli “Harub” enlightening in Baku, Khusroshi concludes: Security and popular reports on penetration of Iranian airspace from the northern side are strengthening Tehran’s official account, which requires Iranian officials to follow the file to neutralize the possible Israeli threats there.
Void accusations
For its part, Baku officially denied the Iranian accusations, while the Azerbaijani media launched a counter campaign in which the Iranian accusations were considered “invalid and new”, and focused on that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been accusing Baku for hosting Israeli military bases and conducting “provocative” military exercises on its lands.
The researcher at the National Center for Democracy and Security Studies, Farhad Abbasov, says that Iran does not have any concrete evidence or facts that prove its “allegations”, but rather a distortion campaign against Azerbaijan, and through these accusations try to cover up the security violations that it was exposed to and revealed the presence of networks on its soil working for Israeli intelligence.
Abbasov notes in his interview with Al -Jazeera Net, that the size, tone and goal of the materials spread on social media in Iran shows that they are not just spontaneous statements, but rather a coordinated and supported campaign from state agencies.
He referred to several goals behind this campaign, on top of which:
- Azerbaijan’s relations with Israel.
- Baku pursued an independent policy free of Iranian influence.
- The national identity of millions of Azerbaijani people residing in Azerbaijan district, northwestern Iran, whom Iran considers a threat to it, he said.
Abbasov cited the statements of the Iranian ambassador to Armenia, Mahdi Subhani, considering it void allegations and political misinformation aimed at undermining relations between the two countries and inciting society against Azerbaijan.
The specter of Israel
For his part, the specialist in Iranian affairs, Victor Sahin, said that although a call of Bazshkian with Aliyev came in the form of “request” to verify that Israeli marches attacked Iran through the atmosphere of Azerbaijan, Tehran wanted to draw attention to the Israeli “mysterious” Israeli partnership in which he sees a major threat.
In his commentary on Al -Jazeera Net, Serin ruled out that Iran had made these accusations without foundations, given that “relations between Azerbaijan and Israel have reached the level of strategic partnership, as well as eyewitnesses during the recent war with Israel, and the confessions of agents who were arrested in Iran.”
According to his words, Iranian doubts reached their climax after the outbreak of the war in GazaWhen Israeli intelligence intensified its work in neighboring countries to form “offensive bases”, including Azerbaijan.
It is not surprising – Sermin – that with the start of the military confrontation between Iran and Israel, Tehran expected strikes, including Baku, but Azerbaijan chose not to support the aspirations of its strategic partner, and it seems that this was not satisfied with Tel Aviv at all as he put it.
He continued, given that Mossad During the struggle, he relied on “the attacks from the inside” using Iranian lands to launch drones, as the use of countries adjacent to launch attacks seemed excessive, and even risky in some places.
However, Sahin notes that Israeli intelligence could resort to deception and launch procedures near the Azerbaijani border with a slight incursion in its air field to suggest that Paku’s participation in the war, stir up doubts against Tehran and create an additional separation line between the two countries, which will allow Tel Aviv to use a “diving” strategy to entirely towards its Caucasian partner.