Baku/Tehran, March 7 -- Azerbaijani media on Friday reported that the country's security services were in active pursuit of several operatives linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) amid allegations of premeditating a series of terror attacks in the country.
According to the reports, the alleged plots targeted strategic and symbolic sites including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Embassy of Israel in Baku, a senior figure in the Jewish religious community and the Ashkenazi Synagogue (Baku).
According to Azerbaijani outlets, investigators believe that the objective of the operation was to spread fear and undermine the country's international reputation. Authorities said three explosive devices had been smuggled into Az...