Azerbaijan has declared 14 Iranian citizens, including members of the Majlis, personae non gratae.

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan has declared 14 Iranian citizens personae non gratae and banned them from entering the country, Vesti.az reports.

The list includes current and former members of the Iranian parliament, two ayatollahs, the editor-in-chief of the Keyhan newspaper Hossein Shariatmadari, representatives of religious organizations, political experts, and a TV presenter.

The decision was reportedly made amid an increase in "insulting statements, accusations, and calls directed against Azerbaijan, its leadership, and the state system."

Azerbaijani authorities accuse the Iranians on the list of "promoting religious radicalism, inciting hatred, speaking out against the sovereignty of Azerbaijan, and calling for a violent change of power."

The "blacklist" Azerbaijan included: political analyst, expert and lecturer at Allameh Tabatabaei University of Tehran Ehsan Movahhedian, former head of the Center for Caucasus and Anatolia Studies at Tabriz University Ahmed Farshbafiyan, member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Kamran Gazenfari, former member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran and political observer Alireza Beygi, member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Abulfazl Zohravand, member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Abbas Moghtadaei Khorasani, member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Alireza Salimi, editor-in-chief of the Iranian newspaper Keyhan Hossein Shariatmadari, member of the Council of Experts that elects the Supreme Leader of Iran, as well as member of the Council for Determining the Expediency of Decisions Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, member of the Society of Authors and Teachers of the Qom Theological Seminary, head of the Islamic Law Center In the city of Qom, Ayatollah Mohammad Javad Fazel Lankarani, Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution of Iran Abdolhossein Khosrowpanah, Head of the Public Relations Department of the Office of the Friday Imam of Tabriz, as well as Head of the Public Relations Department of the Representative Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran in East Azerbaijan Province Hojat-ol-Islam Gholamreza Qavashi, Professor and political expert Dariush Safarnejad and actor and TV presenter Ahmadreza Mousavi.