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On February 7th, Azerbaijan disclosed some more details on the violent terrorist attack that occurred on January 27th on the Azerbaijani embassy in the Iranian capital.

Like individuals, countries, too, can be respectable or untouchable. It all depends on how states participate in building the security architecture, in activating the global integration program. If they manage to increase their efficiency, they easily become acceptable or desirable in the accumulation of stabilization potential.

Debris removal continues in Turkey as the earthquake in the south of the country becomes the strongest in the last 100 years. International aid continues to arrive at airports near the disaster area.

The intricate processes of the modern world are not exactly encouraging. Mostly, there is a growing anxiety for the future.

Investigation into political corruption in European institutions continues, and OCCRP joins in with a bombshell of report. OCCRP has discovered that Sargis Mirzakhanyan (Mirzakhanyants), a Russian media expert and head of the International Agency for Current Policys, played a key role in corruption schemes.

Last August an extremist Shiite group stormed the embassy of Azerbaijan in London and briefly took it over. Last week, another radical attacked an Azerbaijani embassy, but this time in Tehran.  

Ukraine faces a long road back to normal life: victory over a terrorist state, complete de-occupation of the territories that the aggressive neighbor has believed to be "its own" for many years, then clearance of monstrously vast minefields and restoration of devastated cities, villages, infrastructure and historical sites. Azerbaijan is now successfully moving along the same path, and Baku's experience can be invaluable for Kyiv.

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The newly appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vahan Kostanyan made a very revealing "debut". In an interview with Al-Monitor, the new "superstar" of Armenian diplomacy said, " We had intelligence that larger attacks were being prepared by Azerbaijan when it attacked Armenia last September.

The strategic depth of the relationship between the State of Israel and the Republic of Azerbaijan may surprise many people. Each has found a discreet partner in the other that offers key, unique resources allowing both to respond successfully to some of their primary geopolitical challenges.

In recent days, the Armenian media has unanimously trumpeted the harassment of their former compatriots in the Holy Land.

After an armed gunman broke into the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran on January 27, killing a security officer and wounding two others, Baku suspended diplomatic activity at the embassy and pulled its staff out of Iran.

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But why does Europe keep supporting all these people?! Isn't that a policy of moral terror, discrimination against us by the states that support these people? Clearly, by using these foul mouths for their own purposes, Western states are trying to keep Azerbaijan exposed to threats and are pursuing a policy of "new imperialism".

The increasing 'anti-Azerbaijani atmosphere' in Iran in recent years played a major role in the attack on the embassy in Tehran.

Russia wants Iran to toe the line. But with Iran increasingly isolated and now under attack, can diplomacy hold in the region?

Because of the moronic actions of a group of Azerbaijanis living in different European countries, the notion of political emigration has been disfigured and distorted. Meanwhile, historically, political emigration meant intellectual, idea- and concept-based practical activities of philosophers, scientists, writers, and high-ranking statesmen.

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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. 

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.

"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."