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State media reports that Iran has executed a antheral who carried retired a 2023 onslaught connected the Azerbaijan Embassy successful Tehran, sidesplitting its information main and wounding 2 others successful an incidental that escalated tensions betwixt the neighboring nations
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran connected Wednesday executed a antheral who carried retired a 2023 onslaught connected the Azerbaijan Embassy successful Tehran, sidesplitting its information main and wounding 2 others successful an incidental that escalated tensions betwixt the neighboring nations, authorities media reported.
The state-run IRNA quality bureau reported the unidentified man's execution, without offering details, aft his conviction. Typically, Iran hangs its condemned.
Iran had called the January 2023 onslaught a idiosyncratic quality aft the gunman’s woman “disappeared” connected a sojourn to the embassy, but Azeri President Ilham Aliyev called it a “terrorist attack.” Baku accused Tehran of supporting hard-line Islamists who tried to overthrow its government, a complaint Tehran denied.
Following the attack, the embassy was closed and its unit near the country. In April 2023, Azerbaijan expelled 4 Iranian diplomats. A period later, Iran expelled 4 Azeri diplomats. Azerbaijan reopened its embassy successful a antithetic determination successful July 2024.
Azerbaijan borders Iran’s northwest and was portion of the Persian Empire until the aboriginal 19th century. There are besides implicit 12 cardinal taste Azeris successful Iran who correspond the Islamic Republic’s largest number group.
Azerbaijan's diplomatic ties with Israel agelong person been a constituent of contention.
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