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Azerbaijani MP Fazail Agamali stated that the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Azerbaijani Republic Ilgar Rahimov is of Armenian origin, the Azerbaijani news agency Haqqin.az reports.

"Mother of the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection Ilgar Rahimov was representative of a different nationality and even her funeral was organized not in Muslim traditions but in Christian ones accompanied with Clarinet music,” he stated.

The site reminds that recently the head of Baku Underground Tagi Mammadov, while speaking of the presence of Azerbaijanis in administration who have close kinship with the Armenians, brought the example of former MP Gular Ahmedova and stated that her grandmother is Armenian.

Fazail Agamali expressed his solidarity to Tagi Ahmedov, stressing that “strategic positions should be taken by full-blooded Azerbaijanis.”

“Accusation” in having a kinship with the Armenians is a method of defamation in Azerbaijan. It is also one of the preferred methods of the Azerbaijani authorities used in the fight against opponents. In particular, the official mouthpiece of the ruling party, the newspaper "Yeni Azerbaijan", wrote earlier this year that independent journalist Khadija Ismailova’s grandmother was an Armenian. Khadija Ismailova had accused the government of corruption. The same “accusation” was recently heard over the scandal of former MP Gular Ahmadova who was accused of corruption and is currently under arrest. World-famous film director Rustam Ibragimbekov was accused of being in relations with the Armenians and "love" towards them. In August, last year, that very newspaper, “Yeni Azerbaijan”, wrote that "spiritual love of Rustam Ibragimbekov towards Armenians is obvious in his works.”