Source Unveils Azerbaijan's Role in Spreading Narcotics in Region.Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- An informed source dismissed the recent charges raised by Azerbaijan about Iran's involvement in drug-trafficking in the country, and disclosed Baku's key role in protecting poppy poppy, common name for some members of the Papaveraceae, a family composed chiefly of herbs of the Northern Hemisphere having a characteristic milky or colored sap. farms in Afghanistan and spread of illicit drugs in the region."Promotion of narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. is a serious policy of some official circles in the Azerbaijan republic," an informed source, who asked to remain anonymous, told FNA on Tuesday. The source said that Azeri soldiers in collaboration with the US occupying troops are protecting poppy farms in Afghanistan. "The Azerbaijan republic has relocated part of its soldiers from the contact lines in Karabakh to Afghanistan in a bid to protect the poppy farms, which are a source of income for the occupiers," the source noted. The revelation comes after Azeri security forces arrested an Iranian journalist on suspicion of drug possession in Azerbaijan., prompting a warning from Iran's embassy. The Azeri media claimed that the reporter, Anar Bayramli, who worked for Iranian TV, has been detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: in Baku on charges of drug possession. Meantime, Bayramli's brother told contact.az that he had no doubts that the drug was planted by the police. A former Iranian civil defense official took the US and the Zionist regime responsible for detaining the reporter who works for the Iranian television in Azerbaijan. "The pressures of the Zionists and the US had a role in arresting the IRIB's reporter by the Azeri government," Former Director-General of Iran's Civil Defense Davoud Ahmadinejad told FNA on Monday. He referred to the efforts made by some reporters in revealing the relations between the Zionists and a number of regional governments, and said such states do their best to keep their ties with Israel hidden. On February 12, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Azeri Ambassador to Tehran Javanshir Akhundov to protest at Baku for sheltering several Mossad-trained terrorists who had assassinated the Iranian scientists. The director-general of the Iranian foreign ministry's office for commonwealth and Caucasus affairs voiced strong objection to the presence and unrestricted activity of Mossad intelligence agents in Azerbaijan, who are involved in espionage activities against the Islamic Republic An Islamic republic, in its modern context, has come to mean several different things, some contradictory to others. Theoretically, to many religious leaders, it is a state under a particular theocratic form of government advocated by some Muslim religious leaders in the Middle . The Iranian Foreign Ministry also criticized the anti-Iran campaign on state-controlled Azeri news outlets and the degrading behavior of Azeri customs officials towards Iranian truck drivers. 2012 Fars News Agency Fars News Agency (FNA) is an Iranian news agency. It was officially launched in Tehran in February 2002 to "promote the principles of the Islamic Revolution and safeguard national interests". . All rights reserved Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion