BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 27. The police in the area of the attack on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran made no attempt to prevent terrorism and no operational activity is currently being observed, Trend reports, citing an informed source.
An armed attack took place at the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran on January 27, 2023, at about 8:30 (GMT+4). The attacker turned out to be a 50-year-old man who drove up to the administrative building with two young children: a 14-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy. He opened fire with a Kalashnikov assault rifle at a security post, killing the head of the security service and wounding two embassy guards. The incident is currently being investigated.