Azerbaijan is closing its embassy in Tehran

Azerbaijan closed its embassy in Tehran and evacuated employees and their households, whereas its consul-general’s workplace within the metropolis of Tabriz in northwestern Iran remained open.

These developments come after a gunman stormed the headquarters of the Azerbaijani diplomatic mission in Tehran, killing the safety chief and injuring two different embassy guards.

“We will not belief the security of our embassy employees in Iran,” after the Iranian authorities didn’t heed repeated warnings from Azerbaijan of potential threats, Azerbaijan’s Deputy International Minister Khalife Khalafov instructed reporters in Baku late yesterday, based on Bloomberg Information.

Then again, Iranian state tv, citing an official from the general public prosecutor’s workplace in Tehran, mentioned that the police had arrested the shooter and that preliminary investigations had proven that he had acted “very personally”.

Khalavov mentioned Azerbaijan considers this declare “ridiculous”.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev known as Friday’s assault on the embassy an “act of terrorism” and known as for a radical investigation in a cellphone name along with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi over the weekend, based on an announcement on his web site.

The unprecedented assault on the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran got here amid escalating tensions between the 2 nations over points akin to Baku’s ties with Israel and its battle with Armenia over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh area.