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Baku/05.06.23/Turan: The official representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, is surprised by the recent appeal of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry to its citizens not to travel to Iran. This happened after the Iranians arrested Azerbaijani student Farid Safarli for espionage.
He accused the Israeli president of trying to spoil relations between Iran and Azerbaijan. The people of Azerbaijan "should be afraid of the Zionist regime, not the civilizational and Islamic Iran, which has opened its arms to its Azerbaijani brothers," he wrote on his Twitter account.
It should be recalled that relations between the two countries began to deteriorate since the autumn of 2022, when Iran conducted a series of military exercises on the border with Azerbaijan and began openly defending Armenia.
At the end of January, a terrorist attack was carried out against the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran, when one embassy employee was killed and two were injured.
A number of subsequent telephone conversations between the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia did not help to normalize relations. ---02D---
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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