Azerbaijan is evacuating embassy staff and their families from Iran on Sunday after one person was killed and two others were injured in an attack on a diplomatic facility. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.
On January 27, an armed man fired at the embassy guard post. As a result of the attack, the head of the security service of the diplomatic mission was killed, two more guards were injured.
According to the Tasnim agency, an armed man entered the embassy building with two children. After his arrest, he stated that personal and family problems were the motive for the attack.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev described the armed attack as a terrorist attack. An investigation is underway into the fact of an armed attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran.
