'Ground zero for intelligence work'

There's what purports to be an interview with a Mossad agent in Sunday's Times of London. Unfortunately, the Times is so deeply behind a paywall these days that you can't find the article in the Times - nor in the Australian, which reprints many Times articles. I found out about the interview here, and found the full text here. A few hours south of Baku is the border with Iran, which Shimon calls