“Heydar Aliyev was from the KGB (USSR State Security Committee - ed.). He told us that he was a KGB spy in Tehran, he was cleaning shoes in one of the corners of Tehran, he was a shoe-cleaning specialist. And he said it with pride, that is, he wanted to show that he knows Iran, that he knows Tehran and Iran quite well.”
The statement came from Ahmad Hosseini Alast, former head of the Azerbaijani department of the Organization of Cultural and Islamic Relations of Iran, in an interview with Mehr News.
