Iranian Plot to Attack Israeli and U.S. Targets

(Baku, Azerbaijan) This report is hardly unexpected. Iran has become a shady regime.

Azerbaijan has arrested 22 people on suspicion of spying for Iran, accusing them of links with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

A statement issued Wednesday by the Azerbaijani national security ministry confirmed the undated arrests: it said the 22 “were to commit terrorist acts against the US, Israeli and other western states’ embassies and the embassies’ employees,” the AFP reported.

“Firearms, cartridges, explosives and espionage equipment were found during the arrest,” the statement continued. Recruited from 1999 onwards, the suspects allegedly received weapons and espionage training at military camps in Iran. They have been charged with treason and the purchase and possession of weapons and explosives.

It was not clear on Wednesday when the 22 were actually arrested. However, Contact, a non-government Azerbaijani news site supported by the US National Endowment for Democracy, said the arrests took place between late January and 20 February, according to the BBC.

Heh.