Azerbaijan arrests nine people over fresh coup plot blamed on Iran

Azerbaijan, a landlocked country in eastern Transcaucasia, arrested at least nine of its nationals, alleging that they were linked to Iranian secret services.

Officials in Azerbaijan accused the arrested people of plotting a coup and assassinations. The interior ministry, security service and the office of the prosecutor general of Azerbaijan said that the arrested people "were working for Iranian secret services.” Azerbaijan's law enforcement forces arrested them on Tuesday.

The statement by the interior ministry named nine people. The statement also revealed that several other people had been arrested over a fresh coup plot.

According to the statement, those people were plotting a "violent overthrow of the government and the assassinations of prominent personalities and senior officials.”

Last month, officials in Azerbaijan arrested six Azerbaijani nationals in a different case related to Iran. The authorities accused those people of being "recruited by Iranian secret services to destabilise the situation in Azerbaijan.”

Earlier this year, relations between Azerbaijan and Iran soured after a gunman stormed into Baku's embassy in Tehran, the capital of Iran. A gunman shot dead a security guard and injured two other people at the embassy. Azerbaijan called it an "act of terrorism." Subsequently, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi called for an investigation of the whole matter. However, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry blamed Iran for the shooting.

Earlier this month, Iran expelled four Azerbaijani diplomats in response to Baku’s expulsion of Iranian embassy staff in April. Azerbaijan accused the Iranian embassy staff of carrying out activities “incompatible with diplomatic status.” However, Azerbaijani authorities did not describe the entire incident.

Recently, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, called the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to congratulate him for the presidential election. The two leaders also agreed to boost economic cooperation between the two countries. Ilham Aliyev also extended his support to the current Turkish President.

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