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    IRANIAN AMBASSADOR LEAVES FOR TEHRAN FOR CONSULTATIONS

    Interfax
    May 22 2012
    Russia

    Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammad Bagher Bahrami returned to
    Iran for consultations on Tuesday, the Iranian embassy has reported.

    The diplomat was recalled due to a recent protest organized by a
    group of Azerbaijani citizens in front of the building of the Iranian
    embassy in Baku, in which statements were made about Iran's spiritual
    leader that Iranian officials found to be offensive.

    In the meantime, the press service for the Iranian embassy has
    issued a report citing charge d'affaires Ahmed Nemati saying that
    the Iranian ambassador had left for Tehran in the evening of May 21
    "for consultations on the insult of religious saints."

    Several protests organized by opposition activists and diaspora
    organizations were conducted in front of the Iranian embassy building
    in Baku last week to protest Iran's anti-Azerbaijani policies and
    the encroachments on the rights of the Azeri population of Iran. The
    protesters used photos of the Iranian president and spiritual leader
    with critical comments.

    Gudrat Gasanguliyev, chairman of the Azeri opposition People's
    Front of the United Azerbaijan party, said Iran's actions constitute
    interference in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan.

    "There are reports stating that Iran is recalling its ambassador
    [in Baku]. However, I believe the Iranian ambassador should have
    been driven away from here," Gasanguliyev told the Azeri parliament
    on Tuesday.

    Gasanguliyev said Iran's spiritual leader Homeini, whose country
    makes anti-Azerbaijani speeches in connection with the Eurovision
    song contest in Baku, "once found shelter in France." "Why did he
    [Homeini] not find shelter in Muslim countries, but in France, which
    is one of the organizers of Eurovision?" Gasanguliyev said.

    Mubariz Gurbanly, parliamentarian and deputy executive secretary of
    the ruling party Yeni Azerbaijan, has sharply condemned the organizers
    of the anti-Azerbaijani protests in Iran. "The Islamic Republic of
    Iran has the word 'Islamic' in its name and therefore should not have
    worked with Armenia, which has occupied the territory of Azerbaijan.

    Therefore, it is logical that Azerbaijani youth are protesting in front
    of the Iranian embassy [in Baku]. Anti-Azerbaijani speeches made by
    some religious figures in Tebriz, Tehran, and Ardebil are bad not only
    for Azerbaijani-Iranian relations, but also for Iran," Gurbanly said.

    Parliamentarian Azai Guliyev, in turn, said the anti-Azerbaijani
    campaigns in Iran are targeted against Azerbaijani people living in
    Iran. "All these things will harm Iran," he said.

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