Source: Trend News
Azerbaijan – The Iranian embassy in Azerbaijan voiced its disagreement with the demonstration of a documentary film at the Azerbaijani State Television Channel about the activities of a criminal group ‘Said’s band’, which targeted the seize of the state power by force in cooperation with the corps of Iranian revolution’s defenders Sepah. The group (named after Said Dadashbeyli), was arrested in January 2007 was accused of forced seizing the state power in Azerbaijan.
The film demonstrates their relations with Sepah, which provided them with bases for training.
“Film, with script written by US and Israeli intelligence bodies, targets damaging the relations between Azerbaijan and Iran, the embassy said on 17 December.
Baku offers Tehran to hold a meeting between the security bodies to solve Iran’s disagreement on the announcement by the Azerbaijani Security Ministry on detention of a criminal group cooperating with the Iranian special service organizations.
“In a meeting with the representatives of the Iranian Foreign Ministry we offered to organize a meeting between the relevant bodies so that to clarify the issue,” Abbasali Hasanov, the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran, said in a telephone interview from Tehran on 17 December.
The Azerbaijani Ambassador was called to the Foreign Ministry of Iran last weekend to clarify the situation. The Ministry voiced its disagreements which charges laid by some media outlets and state bodies of Azerbaijan as ‘groundless’ and demanded Baku to make official apology.
The Ambassador confirmed his meeting at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. “We discussed this issue, but they did not address any note to Azerbaijan,” the diplomat said. Taking into consideration the comprehensive and successful Azerbaijani and Iranian cooperation, the best method to solve the problem is to organize a meeting of the official of the Security Ministries of the two countries.
A verdict on the armed group known as Said’s band was made in Baku on 10 December. The Court of Grave Crimes sentenced 14 members of the group to the imprisonment term from 2 to 14 years. They are accused of state betrayal, arranging for seizing the state power, illegal preservation of arms and fabrication and spread of false money, preservation and spread of drug.
