Azeri President Blames Iran’s ‘Establishment’ for Embassy Attack
- Aliyev says normal ties depend on Iran investigating shooting
- Azerbaijan closed embassy in Iran after attack last month
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Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said the “Iranian establishment” was behind an armed attack on his country’s embassy in Tehran last month in which a security officer was killed and two others wounded.
In his first direct criticism of the authorities in Tehran over the incident, Aliyev said the failure of police to act immediately to stop the gunman and the fact that state TV interviewed the assailant shortly after he was detained indicated he was “sent by some branches of the Iranian establishment.”