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May 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Ali Hasanov, head of the public and political issues department in Azeri
President Ilham Aliyev’s administration, said: “I do not know who got
this idea into their heads in Iran. We are hosting a song contest, not a gay
parade.”
The song contest has cast a spotlight on Azerbaijan’s human rights record and
exposed tension over religion. Azeri officials in private blame Iran for
Islam’s growing influence in the officially secular country.
The latest spat between the countries that share a religion but have sharply
different political systems is part of wider diplomatic tensions.
Iran has accused Azerbaijan of assisting Israel in what it says was the Jewish
state’s assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Azerbaijan, for its part, arrested dozens of people this year on suspicion of
links with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and of plotting attacks on targets
that included the Israeli ambassador.
Azerbaijan won the right to host the contest by winning last year’s event in
Germany, and sees the annual event watched by millions of television viewers
as a chance to showcase the country.
The finalists, including Engelbert Humperdinck representing Britain, will
perform in the capital’s newly built Crystal Hall.
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