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.
Tehran’s police chief said the man who carried out the attack was motivated by “personal” reasons.
“All responsibility for the attack lies with Iran,” Azerbaijani foreign ministry spokesman Ayxan Hacizada told local media.
He said a recent anti-Azerbaijani campaign in Iranian media had “encouraged the attack.”
Hacizada later told Turkish TRT Haber TV station that the embassy staff “are being evacuated from Iran.”
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Twitter: “I strongly condemn the terrorist attack”.
In a statement earlier…
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