{"id":42599,"date":"2026-03-07T09:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=42599"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:05:42","slug":"the-state-security-service-of-azerbaijan-thwarted-an-irgc-plot-to-carry-out-a-terrorist-attack-on-the-baku-tbilisi-ceyhan-oil-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=42599&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The State Security Service of Azerbaijan thwarted an IRGC plot to carry out a terrorist attack on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) planned to commit terrorist attacks on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, at the Israeli Embassy in Azerbaijan, and against a leader of the Mountain Jewish community and an Ashkenazi Jewish synagogue, with the aim of sowing panic in society and damaging the country&#8217;s international image.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/ru\/proisshestviya\/sgb-predotvratila-plan-ksir-po-teraktu-na-nefteprovode-baku-tbilisi-dzhejhan\">Report<\/a>, information about the thwarting of these terrorist plans by the State Security Service of Azerbaijan (SSG) was disseminated in a report by AzTV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The investigation revealed that Iranian citizens Rustamzada Behnam Sahibali and Zandkian Yaser Rahim had entered into a criminal relationship with Azerbaijani citizen Tarkhan Tarlan oglu Guliyev and organized the illegal transport of explosive devices into Azerbaijan. Seven kilograms and seven thirty grams of C-4 explosives were discovered in a container located near the village of Shikhov in the Sabail district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The investigation also established that, on orders from individuals associated with the IRGC, two additional C-4 remote-controlled explosive devices were brought into the country and hidden in various locations. Additionally, another explosive device weighing 1,280 grams with a blast radius of 250-300 meters was discovered in the Garadagh district.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) planned to commit terrorist attacks on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, at the Israeli Embassy in Azerbaijan, and against a leader of the Mountain Jewish community and an Ashkenazi Jewish synagogue, with the aim of sowing panic in society and damaging the country&#8217;s international image. According to Report, information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42600,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599\/revisions\/42600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}