Iranian man charged in Nigeria over arms shipment

Azim Aghajani said he needed his embassy to represent him before he could enter a plea
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An Iranian man has been charged with arms trafficking in a Nigerian court, in connection with a shipment of weapons intercepted last month.

Azim Aghajani appeared in court in Abuja, but did not enter a plea.


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Court documents reportedly identified him as a Tehran businessman, and also a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

Three Nigerians have also been charged in connection with the shipment, which included rockets and grenades hidden among building materials.

The court said Mr Aghajani had been charged with attempting to import prohibited arms into Nigeria and conspiring to send the illegal shipment to Gambia.

The Iranian said he needed his embassy to represent him before he could present his plea.

Two of the three Nigerian defendants were only charged with conspiring to re-export the shipment to Gambia.

I think Nigeria is stepping up, May god will continue to help us.

We need to really step up, to redeem our lost image

CAN somebody fill me in, does it mean that the arms was meant to SMUGGLE to GAMBIA? or to be use in 9ja

investigation is still ongoing, no one knows

twinskenny:

We need to really step up, to redeem our lost image

Yea that's true

see the eyes of the criminal

Who is the kid in dark shades and body armor rocking the Tavor assault rifle?

good question.

the iranian looks so scary. See im eyes.


and why were the weapons being shipped to Gambia i wonder.

is there a war there, or were they in transit.

as for the nigeria connection, it's not rocket science. Nigeria is a known destination and transit point for weapons trafficking.

lord have mercy.

what a criminal eye

Bawss1:

Who is the kid in dark shades and body armor rocking the Tavor assault rifle?

Kid?!!

^^yes, he looks rather young.

Yes kid. Very early 20s . In jobs like this i think it should have something to do with high and strong bone(age) in case of combat.

Nice gun, i need that gun for just 3 days.

this is the first time i am seeing a sound and neat gun with any Nigeria sec official. And the guy with the gun is not joking at all, see him face

cnnnigeria:

see the eyes of the criminal

guy nawa youoooo! how do you want criminal eyes to look like?

honeric01:

Nice gun, i need that gun for just 3 days.

what do you need the gun 4?

Mere looking at him you know he is a terrorist. People like him o not need trial just blast him to pieces afterall they are used to suicide bombing. He must have ben importing those weapons in orer to come and train his boko haram brothers.

cnnnigeria:

see the eyes of the criminal

By mere looking at the eyes you will see that they are like the eyes of a suicide bombing instructor importing those weapons to train his boko_Haram brothers in the northern part of the country had they succeeded in clearing them from the wharf. God don catch the animal.

chidyke77:

what do you need the gun 4?

What do they use gun for?

Thats a sweet Rifle. God dayum!

Crazy Ahmadinejad people

Damn, I wish that Iranian would just try to make a run for freedom so that that "kid" could give him a quick demonstration in the workings of that big aszz gun!

In the days of Yar adua(RIP), Abacha, babangida etc this terrorist wont be charged because we all know abokis would have been bought over at the round table of the organization of Islamic countries (OIC) and be persuaded to leave their fellow jihadist to islamize the Nation. Now we have a non aboki chief of defence, non aboki president and some non aboki members of the security cabinet we can actually tackle this menace of extremism

bk.babe97y:

Damn, I wish that Iranian would just try to make a run for freedom so that that "kid" could give him a quick demonstration in the workings of that big aszz gun!

Who is the kid in dark shades and body armor rocking the Tavor assault rifle?

Na InterPol Officer.

that has to be interpol, Naija police wont even know how to load the magazine on the gun(with all those their rusty civil war rifles), but mhen, thatz some solid weapon! that guy must be feeling really cool with himself

This guy should be handcuffs, how come he work as if nothing will happen,

[size=14pt]That Kid Must be from INTERPOL. Our security outfits have embezzled the money meant for our boys to look like that guy. [/size]

about Zap.i.n time

that gun is simply sweet, i have seen d gun on several occassions. I guess d guy should be from SSS becos datz d gun they use. It as a lazer light on it. Which i could just see the thing work.
Dis guy is definatly a criminal, according to the anatomical metology. Dat pix looks like it's a movie. Nigeria is getin dere i guess.

See Nigeria commando behind him OMO I like dat posture but what spoil d pics na does yaro wey dey ur back

the fear of Okitipupa prison is the begining of wisdom see as d iranian man they look like LUKU, u go here am. Nigeria prison mosquitos go make u confess say Ahmeenijad is the younger brother of Obama

Funny how people pass comments about that "kid" on uniform being INTERPOL! Hmmmm the more one reads comments on NL, the more it seems most Nigerians know very little about Nigeria. That dude is an SSS op! As for the weapons, the regular Nigeria MOBILE POLICE FORCE NMPF may have "day gun" as their weapon of choice but not the 'Elite' secret op.

Now this Iranian weapons smuggling is a serious issue Nigeria must not play with! Has anyone read the volumes of the US Cables from WikiLeaks especially those on Irans and their clandestine operations to corner regimes around the world to their sympthy. I strongly believe part of those weapons were for the extremist in the Northern part of Nigeria.

The SSS, DIA and all the other "Secret" Layers of the Nigerian state must look beyond this weapons importation and try to unravel the Iranian clandestine agenda in Nigeria.

God bless Nigeria - The persian has always been a fallen angel even right from the arly centuries and will forever remain so!