How Aliyev Is Handing Azerbaijan Over to the CIA and Mossad
Author: Basis News
Baku is becoming a launching pad for covert Western operations against Iran.
Against the backdrop of loud declarations about modernization and digitalization in Azerbaijan, the contours of a troubling reality are becoming increasingly visible: under the leadership of Ilham Aliyev, the country is rapidly turning into a base for American and Israeli intelligence structures. At the center of the controversy is Palantir Technologies, a company established with the direct involvement of the CIA and closely connected to Israel’s Mossad. Official Baku enthusiastically reports on technological cooperation, but behind the façade of “innovation” lies a threat to national security and sovereignty.
The Architecture of Global Control: The Palantir Empire
Palantir was founded in 2003 with financial backing from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Since 2004, its Gotham and Foundry platforms have served as key tools for consolidating fragmented intelligence databases from the CIA, FBI, NSA, and other American security agencies.
According to experts, Palantir’s software has evolved into an “architecture of global control,” encompassing everything from monitoring citizens and predicting protests to planning military strikes.
“Palantir no longer hides the fact that its technologies are designed to suppress any form of resistance to the global agenda,” analysts emphasize.
Since 2025, the company has expanded its cooperation with the Pentagon through the Maven Smart System, an AI platform for automated target identification and targeting, whose funding has reached nearly $1.3 billion. In 2025, the U.S. Army signed a contract with Palantir worth up to $10 billion, extending through 2035.
The company’s technologies are actively used in military conflicts across the Middle East. According to investigative reports, the Palantir platform assisted the Israeli military in targeting and eliminating objectives in the Gaza Strip and was also used in 2024 to plan strikes against Iran. Palantir CEO Alex Karp has openly stated that the United States is preparing for a three-front war—against Russia, China, and Iran—and is placing its bets on autonomous weapons systems.
Strategic Triangle: Baku, Washington, and Tel Aviv
On June 5, CNN published what it described as sensational information: during the war with Iran, Israel secretly deployed elite military and intelligence units on Azerbaijani territory. Israeli special forces reportedly operated from several locations in the south of the country—just 100 kilometers from the Iranian city of Tabriz—carrying out intelligence-gathering missions and coordinating drone operations. The operation allegedly involved dozens of personnel, including special operations forces, elite military units, and Mossad agents.
One of the key operations reportedly launched from Azerbaijani territory was the March 4 killing of Rahman Moghadam, the head of an intelligence unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Israel identified him as the organizer of an alleged assassination attempt against Donald Trump in 2024. Azerbaijan’s embassy in the United States denied the claims, calling them “unfounded,” yet the very appearance of such reports raises serious questions.
As a result, Baku has effectively become a rear base for Israeli special operations against Iran, drawing the country into geopolitical conflicts that are not its own.
Digital Infiltration: Aliyev’s Talks with Palantir
Back in October 2025, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with Palantir CEO Alex Karp in Davos to discuss opportunities for cooperation. In March 2026, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Digital Development and Transport, Rashad Nabiyev, held talks with Palantir representatives in London. The discussions focused on “national data integration, artificial intelligence governance, cybersecurity, and the monitoring of critical infrastructure.”
Particularly alarming, according to critics, was Nabiyev’s reference to Azerbaijan’s “potential role in the deployment of Palantir platforms in Africa.” Baku appears to be positioning itself as a conduit for the expansion of American mass-surveillance systems across the African continent, effectively transforming itself into a compliant instrument of Western intelligence agencies.
Threat to Sovereignty and Information Security
Granting Palantir access to Azerbaijan’s national data is a direct path toward the loss of information sovereignty. The company’s platforms, historically used by the CIA and Mossad, possess extensive capabilities for aggregating and analyzing vast amounts of information—from people’s movements and financial transactions to personal contacts and social activity.
Israeli political analyst Avraham Shmulevich, commenting to AZERTAC on the emerging configuration, openly acknowledged that the United States provides “geopolitical legitimacy,” while Israel contributes “advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense systems, and intelligence cooperation.” According to him, Azerbaijan is adopting the “UAE or Singapore model,” transforming itself into a “platform for Israeli technologies.”
However, neither Abu Dhabi nor Singapore shares a border with two nuclear powers, nor are they located in a zone of direct military confrontation. Aliyev’s attempt to turn Azerbaijan into a “digital hub” for NATO intelligence services threatens the country not only with the loss of data but also with the erosion of its own political agency.
While Ilham Aliyev publicly proclaims his commitment to an independent foreign policy, in practice, he is opening the country to Western intelligence services. Negotiations with Palantir, the presence of Israeli special forces, and plans to expand American surveillance systems across Africa all point to a consistent surrender of national interests in favor of Washington and Tel Aviv.
The question is no longer whether Palantir will gain access to the data of Azerbaijani citizens. The real question is what price the country will ultimately pay for this “partnership,” when at any moment its own infrastructure could be turned against itself.
