A Survey of the Zionist Regime Intelligence Targets in Republic of Azerbaijan and National Security of Islamic Republic of Iran

Presence and influence of The Zionist regime in Azerbaijan Republic in all economic, cultural, political, military, and security aspects have been growing in the past few years, and this issue caused concerns and vocal protest of Iranian security and political officials. This article is a descriptive approach to qualitative research and content analysis techniques to assess the nature of expansion of Zionist-Azerbaijan relation and to analyze its security effects on Iran. The purpose is to answer to this question: what is the implication of this relation on Iran and what are Israeli intelligence penetration and target devices in Azerbaijan? Based on the study of available documents three important Zionist regime’s initiatives have been recognized: creating social and cultural institutions, technical development, military contracts and cooperation. These are three covers for Israel’s intelligence and security operation on Iran which are carried through the territory of Azerbaijan. Identifying the Zionist umbrella organizations and describing the nature and type of its intelligence operation are important objectives of the present paper. For this purpose and for understanding the fundamentals of paper, the authors have developed six analytical models.