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Recently, Iranian citizens and media outlets have increasingly made what Azerbaijan describes as unfounded harsh accusations, insulting remarks and unlawful calls targeting the Azerbaijani state, people and leadership. Religious figures, lawmakers, experts and media representatives at various levels have targeted Azerbaijan’s sovereignty, security, state-religion relations and system of governance, while promoting religious radicalism, seeking to incite religious hatred and hostility, and calling for the forcible change of government.
Taking these developments into account, 14 Iranian citizens who made calls against Azerbaijan and promoted hostility in the media and on social networks have been declared “undesirable persons” in the Republic of Azerbaijan and banned from entering the country, Operative Information Center-OMM reports.
The list of those individuals is as follows:
1. Ehsan Movahedian — political analyst, expert and lecturer at Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran
2. Ahmad Farshbafiyan — former head of the Center for Caucasus and Anatolian Studies at the University of Tabriz
3. Kamran Ghazanfari — member of Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly
4. Alireza Beigi — former member of Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly and political commentator
5. Abolfazl Zohrevand — member of Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly
6. Abbas Moqtadaei Khorasgani — member of Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly
7. Alireza Salimi — member of Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly
8. Hossein Shariatmadari — editor-in-chief of the Kayhan newspaper
9. Ayatollah Mohsen Araki — member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, which selects the Supreme Leader, and member of the Expediency Discernment Council
10. Ayatollah Mohammad Javad Fazel Lankarani — member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and head of the A’immah al-Athar (a) Jurisprudence Center in Qom
11. Abdol Hossein Khosrow Panah — secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution
12. Hojjatoleslam Gholamreza Kavashi — head of public relations at the office of the Tabriz Friday prayer leader and at the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader’s representative in East Azerbaijan province
13. Daryush Safarnejad — professor and political expert
14. Ahmadreza Mousavi — actor and television presenter (APA)
