Raeisi Orders Full Probe into ‘Bitter’ Azerbaijan Embassy Attack
News - Middle East: Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi has ordered a thorough investigation into an attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran, where the head of the security service of the embassy was killed and two guards were injured.
“We condemn the attack at the entrance of the embassy of our brotherly neighbor, the Republic of Azerbaijan,” Mohammad Jamshidi, a political aide to the Iranian president, said in a post on his Twitter account on Friday.
He said President Raeisi “ordered a full investigation” into the issue and “expressed condolences to the govt, people & family of the murdered diplomat & prayed for the recovery of the injured.”
Tehran police chief Brigadier General Hossein Rahimi said on Friday the gunman, who entered the Azerbaijani embassy this morning and started shooting with a firearm, was arrested.
Source: Press TV
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