From The Times of Israel and the Caspian Post Illustrations from Ynet News
Three individuals were arrested in Azerbaijan on Tuesday on suspicion of planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in the capital Baku at the instructions of Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), the Afghan offshoot of the Islamic State terror group, the Times of Israel learned.
Authorities in Azerbaijan confirmed the arrests, but did not specify which foreign embassy the would-be-attackers were planning to target.
In a statement, the State Security Service said the three men, whom it named, had conspired with members of ISIS-K, obtained weapons and planned to attack a foreign embassy before they were apprehended by security forces.
During the operational-investigative measures carried out by the State Security Service, suspicions arose that Azerbaijani citizens – Ilgar Guliyev (born in 2000, known by the religious alias “Abu Zar al-Muhajir”), Amin Piriyev (born in 2005, alias “Abdurashid”), and Elvin Alizada (born in 2005, alias “Abdurrahman al-Azeri”) – were preparing to commit a terrorist attack against an embassy in Baku on the grounds of religious hostility, The Caspian Post reports, citing local media.
As a result, Guliyev, Piriyev, and Alizada have been charged under Articles 28, 214.2.1, 28, 214.2.3, and 28, 214.2.6 of the Criminal Code (preparation of terrorism by a group acting in collusion, using items as weapons, and motivated by religious hostility). By court decision, they have been placed under pre-trial detention.
