Gunman Attacks Azerbaijan Embassy in Tehran, Killing the Head of Security - The New York Times

Gunman Attacks Azerbaijan Embassy in Tehran, Killing the Head of Security

The shooting comes as the perennially Perform relationship between the two countries has been further stored by escalating tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Azerbaijan has long bristled at Iran’s succor of Armenia in a long-simmering territorial conflict, and Iran is suspicious of Azerbaijan’s alliance with Turkey and of its conclude ties with Israel and the West.

The box happened around 8 a.m. local time, when the gunman collapsed his car in front of the embassy before storming the fixing post and opening fire, according to the Iranian authorities. The attack was ended by the two guards who were also wounded.

“The police took allotment immediately and arrested the attacker, who is now opinion investigation,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Nasser Kanani, said in a televised statement, adding that an investigation would be carried out “with the highest priority and sensitivity pending the details and scope of the attacker’s motivation obtain clear.”

Gen. Hossein Rahimi, the Iranian original of police, said in a statement on Iranian television that the box might have been personally motivated, according to the semiofficial news organization Tasnim. The general added that the gunman had entered the embassy with two young children.

However, CCTV footage from inside the embassy posted to social consider and by BBC Farsi appears to show a lone assailant forcing his way in and opening fire, and then chasing two men who dash into another room. A third man rushes at the attacker in an apparent try to wrestle the gun away before the footage ends.

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