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Iran dismisses Azerbaijan’s claims of drug route to Europe

Iranian and Azerbaijani leaders also had a recent row over an Iranian military drill near the border.

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Confiscated illegal drugs are pictured during the annual media conference of the main customs office at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on April 8, 2019. — DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty Images

Iran and Azerbaijan are in a war of words again, this time over drug smuggling.

On Friday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev claimed that the country had closed a drug route from Iran to Armenia and onto Europe. The purported route supposedly passed through southwest Azerbaijan as well, according to Azerbaijani media outlets.

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