On the morning of 27 January, the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Tehran was attacked by a gunman. As a result of the attack, the head of security at the diplomatic mission was killed. Two other guards were wounded.
Azerbaijan has long bristled at Iran’s support of Armenia in a long-simmering territorial conflict, and Iran is suspicious of Azerbaijan’s alliance with Turkey and of its close ties with Israel and the West.
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Iran appointed a new police chief for Tehran on Friday following an armed attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in the capital, though it was unclear if the appointment was influenced by the attack.
What has happened is an act of terrorism, that much is clear. The attack on the embassy is definitely an attack on the country, and this attack will have most serious consequences, political analyst Farhad Mammadov says, commenting on the armed incident at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Tehran, in which one member of staff was killed and two were wounded.
We, Azerbaijanis living in foreign countries, are deeply saddened by the killing of one Azerbaijani and wounding of two others as a result of the armed attack on the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Iran at about 8:30 am Baku time on January 27.
We strongly condemn the treacherous Terror Attack against the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Azerbaijan on Friday said it was evacuating staff from its embassy in Tehran, blaming Iran for a “terrorist” attack in which the head of security was killed and two guards wounded.
"This morning began with a tragic event. A brutal terrorist attack was made on the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Tehran, and the head of the embassy security was killed while repelling this attack."
The Iranian special services are directly behind the terrorist act against the Azerajan embassy in Iran.
President Ilham Aliyev has shared a publication in connection with the terrorist attack on Azerbaijani Embassy in Iran.
At about 8:30 am on January 27, an armed attack was committed on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran!
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