Posing as believers, these individuals carried out propaganda in favor of Iran on social media, abused the freedom of religion in Azerbaijan, and executed the orders of Iranian intelligence services with the purpose of undermining the established traditions of tolerance in Azerbaijan.
Using Iranian attributes, as well as black flags with various inscriptions in Persian, on social media and at religious ceremonies in which citizens of Azerbaijan participate, they stirred up turmoil in the society to discriminate on the basis of religion and incite interreligious discord, and passed the collected information on to the intelligence services from which they received instructions.