All employees of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran have been evacuated. The Azerbaijani consulate in Tabriz is operating as usual. Photo: Internet The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reported on its Twitter page on January 29, 2023, that all employees of its embassy and their families in Tehran, as well as two injured individuals […]
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All employees of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran have been evacuated. The Azerbaijani consulate in Tabriz is operating as usual.
Photo: Internet
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reported on its Twitter page on January 29, 2023, that all employees of its embassy and their families in Tehran, as well as two injured individuals and the body of the deceased head of the embassy’s security, have been evacuated to Baku.
The evacuation of the Azerbaijani embassy staff in Iran took place after an armed attack on the embassy building, resulting in two people being injured and one person killed.
The Iranian authorities stated that “personal motives were behind this incident,” however, the President of Azerbaijan called it a “terrorist act” and ordered the evacuation of his country’s diplomats in Tehran.
Authorities from several countries also condemned this attack, including the leaders of Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
On the morning of January 27, a man armed with a Kalashnikov rifle stormed the Azerbaijani embassy building in Tehran and opened fire on embassy staff. As a result of this armed attack, the head of the embassy’s security service, Orkhan Askerov, was killed, and two others were injured.
Photo: Internet