Israel deployed commandos, military rescue personnel and Mossad operatives to sites in southern Azerbaijan during the latest Israeli-US war with Iran, according to a report cited by Israeli media. Azerbaijani authorities rejected the account, calling the allegations disinformation and denying that the country’s territory had been used for operations against another state.
The report, attributed to four sources familiar with the activity, said several dozen Israeli personnel operated from multiple locations near Azerbaijan’s border with Iran. One site was said to be about 100 kilometres from Tabriz, an Iranian city previously targeted in Israeli strikes.
The personnel reportedly included commandos, members of an airborne combat search-and-rescue unit and Mossad agents. Their original assignment was described as preparation to recover personnel in an emergency, including the possible rescue of downed pilots. Sources said the mission later expanded to intelligence collection and drone operations, giving Israel a position from which to observe northern Iran.
Neither the Israeli government nor the supplied reporting provided public documentary evidence establishing the deployment. Azerbaijan’s Media Development Agency rejected the claims as an attempt to mislead international audiences and damage regional stability. The Azerbaijani embassy in the United States separately denied alleged use of the country for action against third countries.
The Azerbaijan claims formed part of a broader account of covert Israeli locations across the Middle East and nearby regions. Sources cited other alleged facilities in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Somaliland. Those assertions carried varying levels of detail and were not independently confirmed in the evidence supplied for this report.
Separate reporting had previously alleged that Israel maintained two temporary outposts in Iraq during the war. Those sites were said to support special forces, logistics and preparations for aircrew recovery. Iraqi security sources gave conflicting accounts about whether Israeli personnel had operated in isolated desert areas, illustrating the difficulty of verifying covert wartime deployments.
Azerbaijan’s location beside northern Iran gives any military or intelligence presence there obvious strategic significance. It also makes the allegation diplomatically sensitive: Baku explicitly rejected the suggestion that it had permitted attacks on a neighbour from its soil.
The central claim therefore remains contested. The supplied sources describe an alleged Israeli network and operational roles in considerable detail, but Azerbaijan’s formal denial means the account should not be treated as an acknowledged deployment. No evidence in the packet established that Azerbaijani officials approved, supported or knew of the reported activity. The reported activity was covert and therefore not publicly observable at the time.
