Baku pulls out staff after Tehran embassy attack


Issue 1163 - 09 Feb 2023 | 1 minute read

Azerbaijan has closed its embassy in Tehran and evacuated staff and their families, following a gun attack on the diplomatic mission late January in which one security guard  was killed and two others wounded. Azerbaijan complained local security personnel had done nothing to defend the embassy.

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