Israeli political strategist blames Iran for plotting Azerbaijani embassy attack

Israeli historian and political strategist David Eidelman has blamed Iran for plotting an attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran on January 27.

He made the remarks on the air of the online channel News from the Caucasus, Caliber.Az reports.

The Israeli expert noted that the attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran was planned two months before the implementation, the report adds.

"Please note that the current Iranian official version of the attack on the Azerbaijani embassy - allegedly the attacker's wife was hiding in the embassy for nine months, is surprisingly similar to the version that Iran justified the massacre at the Russian embassy in 1829," he said.

Eidelman noted that "then the Persians claimed that [Russian ambassador Alexander] Griboyedov and several dozen other embassy employees were killed because Armenian and Georgian wives found shelter in it, who were forcibly married and held in Persia. Please note: the Iranians have not come up with even a more original version in 200 years".