What's going on in Azerbaijan?

by Thomas Joscelyn
The Weekly Standard
April 30, 2012

http://www.middleeastclarity.com/4720/what-going-on-in-azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is on the front lines of a shadow war between Israel and Iran. At stake are Iran's nuclear weapons program and Israel's clandestine efforts to stop it. A recent article published by McClatchy Newspapers refers to Azerbaijan—sandwiched between Iran and Russia on the Caspian Sea—as a "den of spies." Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, and Iran—all of these countries and more run clandestine operations on Azerbaijani soil. "This is ground zero for intelligence work," an Israeli intelligence official told the London Times earlier this year. "Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran."

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