Azerbaijan evacuates citizens of 72 countries from Iran UPDATED

From 08:00 on February 28 to 10:00 on March 11, Azerbaijan facilitated the evacuation of 2,168 citizens representing 72 countries from Iran.

Amongst the evacuees, 383 are Azerbaijani citizens, Caliber.Az reports, citing local media.

The operation was carried out amid rising regional tensions and concerns over safety following ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.

Among the foreign nationals evacuated through Azerbaijan’s border, the largest groups were citizens of China (633), Russia (293), Tajikistan (174), Pakistan (137), and Oman (57). Other significant groups included nationals from Italy (44), Indonesia (32), Iran (29), Spain (26), and Algeria (25).

Smaller groups comprised citizens of Saudi Arabia (18), Japan (17), France and Germany (16 each), and Georgia (13). Uzbekistan, Hungary, and Poland were represented by 12 people each, while Mexico had 11 evacuees. Groups of 10 included Nigeria, Belarus, Bulgaria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and nine citizens each came from the United Kingdom and Canada.

Other nationalities included Brazil and Kazakhstan (8 each); UAE, Slovakia, Belgium, and Romania (6 each); and Serbia, Switzerland, Czechia, Afghanistan, Austria, and India (5 each). Four citizens each came from Jordan, Bangladesh, Türkiye, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United States, Finland, and the Netherlands, while three were from Qatar, the Philippines, Croatia, and Denmark. Two citizens each came from Nepal, Lebanon, Yemen, Kyrgyzstan, Sweden, Sudan, Cyprus, and Slovenia, and single evacuees represented Tunisia, South Africa, the Maldives, Myanmar, Cuba, the Vatican, Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Egypt, Australia, and Belize.

By Khagan Isayev