According to Azerbaijani state television, the person who carried out the terrorist attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). AzTV.
In early September, Iranian Prosecutor General Mohammed Kazem Movahedi-Azad announced that the criminal case regarding the armed attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran was transferred to the court. According to the TV channel, “Iranian court sentenced Iranian citizen Yasin Hosseinzade to death, who carried out a terrorist attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran.”
In the attack that took place on January 27, the diplomatic mission security chief was killed and two of his colleagues were injured. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev condemned this armed attack as a terrorist attack and demanded that it be investigated immediately and those responsible be punished. On January 29, 53 embassy employees and their family members were evacuated to Baku.
At the beginning of this year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Moscow is ready to provide assistance in resolving the issue related to the attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran. The foreign ministries of Iran and Azerbaijan also described the incident as a terrorist attack.
Previously Armenia and Azerbaijan To agree It concerns the mutual recognition of each other’s territorial integrity.