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Azerbaijan tries to benefit from distortion of history and speculation on ethnic issues, Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran's West Azarbaijan Province announced, Iran's ISNA news agency reported.

Referring to Baku’s recent allegations and speculations that the bodies found in the cemetery in Urmia are those of Muslims who were allegedly killed by Armenians in 1918, West Azarbaijan Cultural Heritage Organization said:

“Allegations by Musa Guliyev, deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani parliamentary committee on social policy, have nothing in common with reality because the first researches show that the emergence of the mass cemetery during the renovation of the historical school of Urmia is linked with the events that occurred during World War I, when the Ottoman Turks, Russia and England made attacks aimed at occupying Iran’s northwestern regions which left dead about 9 million Iranians.”

The Iranian source says that three years ago Azeri media released a video saying that allegedly a mummy was found in Khodaafarin district, which had 4000-year history. But researches revealed that the mummy was forged.