Azerbaijan hopes perpetrators of embassy attack in Iran will be punished ‘justly’
ISTANBUL (AA): Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday expressed hope that the perpetrators of January’s attack on his country’s embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran will be punished “justly.”
He said this during a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in the capital Baku, according to an Azerbaijani presidency statement.
Amir-Abdollahian said that Iran’s judicial and law-enforcement bodies are investigating the attack and that he hoped the embassy would resume its operations soon.
On Jan. 27, a gunman stormed the Azerbaijani mission in the Iranian capital, killing the security chief and wounding two others.
Azerbaijan evacuated its staff and their family members from the mission following the attack and also advised its citizens against traveling to Iran.
The meeting between Aliyev and Amir-Abdollahian also addressed bilateral issues, especially economic and trade relations.
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