Azerbaijani, US envoys discuss deadly embassy attack in Tehran

Jafar Huseynzada, Head of the Azerbaijani mission to NATO and his US counterpart Ambassador Julianne Smith have discussed the deadly attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran.

“It was a great pleasure to meet with Amb. Julianne Smith of the US to NATO. We discussed recent deliberate act of #terror perpetrated against the Embassy of #Azerbaijan in Iran on Jan. 27. In this regard, I welcomed unequivocal and swift support to Azerbaijan expressed by the US officials,” Huseynzada wrote on his Twitter account, Caliber.Az reports.

“We also had an excellent exchange on NATO-Azerbaijan partnership, contributions to international peace and security, US-Azerbaijan bilateral relations, Azerbaijan-Armenia normalization process and situation around the LachinRoad and other regional issues of mutual interest,” he added.

To recall, an armed attack took place on the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran on the morning of January 27. The attacker broke into the security post of the diplomatic mission and killed the head of the security service with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Two embassy security officers were injured while repelling the attack. Their condition is satisfactory. The attacker was detained by an Azerbaijani embassy staffer.

On January 29, employees of the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran and their family members were evacuated to Baku. The activity of the diplomatic mission has been completely suspended.

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— Jafar Huseynzada 🇦🇿 (@JafarHuseynzade) February 7, 2023