Azerbaijan says it will evacuate embassy in Iran after a man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle attacked it, killing the head of security at the diplomatic post and wounding two guards.
However, the ministry said a “recent anti-Azerbaijani campaign against our country in Iran has encouraged such attacks against our diplomatic mission.”
Iranian state TV had quoted Rahimi as saying the gunman had entered the embassy with his two children during the attack. However, surveillance footage from inside the embassy released in Azerbaijan, which matched details of the other video of the aftermath and bore a timestamp matching the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry’s statement, showed the gunmen burst through the embassy’s doors alone.Those inside tried to push through metal detectors to take cover.
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