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Turkey Detains 11 Suspected of Spying for Iran |
2020-12-15 |
[AnNahar] ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... has detained 11 people suspected of spying and abducting an Iranian political dissident on behalf of Tehran, the The announcement followed a rare public spat between ![]() and top Iranian officials over Azerbaijan. Agents from Turkey's MIT intelligence service arrested the The exiled Iranian opposition figure lived in Sweden and visited Turkey in October. Iran's state media officially reported his arrest in November but provided no details about how he ended up in Iranian custody. Tehran accuses Chaab of involvement in an Arab separatist group known as the ASMLA. The The 11 The announcement comes on the heels of a public spat between the two regional powers linked to Turkey's support for Azerbaijan in its victorious war with Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Attending a victory parade in Baku, Erdogan recited a poem last Thursday that Iranian officials said supported separatism among Iran's large ethnic Azerbaijani minority. Iranian authorities summoned Turkey's ambassador to Tehran to complain about Erdogan's "interventionist and unacceptable remarks". Turkey replied by summoning Iran's ambassador to Ankara to protest the "baseless" claims. Top Erdogan aide Fahrettin Altun also condemned Iran's "offensive language toward our president" in a tweet Saturday. Turkey and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate have close and longstanding political and trade relations but find themselves on opposite sides of the war in Syria and have other regional disputes. The six-week war over Azerbaijan's disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave resulted in rockets and missiles hitting parts of northern Iran near the conflict zone. Turkey supplied Azerbaijan with arms in the years preceding the conflict and backed it diplomatically during the war. But Iran expressed repeated alarm during the fighting and sent Revolutionary Guards soldiers to the Azerbaijani border in October to keep the conflict from spilling over. |
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