Who is behind the armed attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran?

Baku/27.01.23/Turan: On January 27, at 8:30 am Baku time, the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran was subjected to armed attack. The attacker opened fire from a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the security post. As a result of the attack, a security officer was killed, and two embassy guards were wounded. According to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, the deceased was the head of the embassy's security service.

Political scientist Elkhan Shahinoglu commented on this event in the "Difficult Question" program.

After the second Karabakh war, there were many anti-Azerbaijani statements and rhetoric from religious figures, Iranian officials, diplomats, Shahinoglu said. “Monthly, weekly, daily anti-Azerbaijani statements were made. And this only increased the anti-Azerbaijani hysteria in the conservative and religious circles of Iran. They threatened Azerbaijan, stating that “attempts to change the current borders in the region would cross red lines” and that “Iran will not allow the creation of the Zangezur corridor”, and openly opposed the improvement of Azerbaijan’s relations with Israel. And now this event,” the expert recalled.

According to him, now Tehran wants to "hide the ends in the water" putting forward the version that the attacker's actions were allegedly motivated by family problems. “But for everyone who saw the footage of the video recording of the incident, it is obvious that this was a planned terrorist attack.

The footage shows that the car of the terrorist followed at a distance the car of the embassy security personnel. After pausing for them to park their car, the terrorist accelerates and crashes into the car. The calculation is obvious - after the collision of cars, the embassy employees will go outside to find out what is happening, the door of the embassy will be open and then, having shot them, it will be possible to enter the embassy building, which the terrorist succeeded. This is the handwriting of the special services,” the political scientist believes, adding that “if the security officer had not been able to neutralize the terrorist, he would have killed all the embassy employees on the second floor.”

Shahinoglu also did not rule out the involvement of the Armenian diaspora in Iran in this crime. He also noted that for Iran such incidents - attacks on embassies, attempts on ambassadors are not new.

“In 1979, in Tehran, having attacked the US embassy, they held 400 of its employees hostages for a year,” the expert said, noting that, however, this is the first time that an attack is made on the embassy of a country that Iran, even in words, but calls him a friend and ally.