News.bloomberglaw. The Republic of Azerbaijan sued CNN for defamation Tuesday, saying the network put the country in Iran’s crosshairs by falsely reporting it had allowed Israel to stage military operations from its territory.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Delaware, concerns a June 5 article posted on CNN’s website that stated Israel had deployed commandos to Azerbaijan to perform reconnaissance and launch attacks, including a March 4 assault that killed the intelligence chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The court complaint stated that the report threatened to “recklessly exacerbate geopolitical tensions in an already volatile region,” compromising Azerbaijan’s posture of neutrality and worsening tensions with Iran over its friendly relations with Israel, according to the court complaint.
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