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It is little likely that Azerbaijan would dare to send a spy drone to its border with Iran, Mansour Haghighat-Pour, Vice Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said, commenting on the Iranian media reports suggesting that Azerbaijan is using drones to carry out spying missions along its border with Iran, Arannews.ir reported.

We will remind that Amin Partu, post-graduate student at Tehran University Political Science Chair, wrote in an article in IRAS recently, “Azerbaijan bought military equipment worth about $3.6 billion during the past two years. Most of the equipment was purchased from Israel. In 2012 alone, Israel and Azerbaijan signed a deal on purchase of military equipment worth about $1.9 billion. Besides, Azerbaijan announced its intention to produce warships in 2013. Surely, Israel will have a big role in this project.”

The Iranian analyst named the types of ammunition, which Azerbaijan purchased from Israel over the past years, and asked, “What threat is Azerbaijan going to fight using this military equipment?”

“Baku states that this military equipment is directed against Armenia. But studies by military experts show that it is directed against Iran or Turkmenistan because Armenia has no outlet to sea. So, Azerbaijan’s anti-ship rockets are only directed against Iran and Turkmenistan,” the author concluded.

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