Azerbaijan Says It Uncovered Terrorists With Iran, Lebanon Ties -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Azerbaijan’s Ministry of National Security said it uncovered a terrorist group with ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, or Sepah, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, state television channel AzTV reported.
The authorities have detained an unspecified number of the group’s members, who’d acquired weapons and explosives and were planning attacks against the Israeli embassy and a Jewish cultural center in Baku, the Caspian Sea nation’s capital, AzTV said today. They had also collected intelligence for Sepah, it added. The U.S. deems Sepah and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations.
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