The attacker opened fire with an assault rifle, killing the chief of the embassy’s security service and injuring two security guards.
A gunman entered Azerbaijan’s embassy in the Iranian capital and killed one person on Friday, the foreign ministries of Iran and Azerbaijan confirmed in separate statements, with both citing different motives for the deadly attack. Police and security forces arrested the assailant, who is now under investigation, according to the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
Tensions between Baku and Tehran have been high for years after disagreements over several diplomatic and regional issues, including Azerbaijan’s support for Israel and Iran’s backing of Armenia in the dispute over the Armenian-majority breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that a “recent anti-Azerbaijani campaign against our country in Iran has encouraged such attacks against our diplomatic mission.
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