The perpetrator of the armed attack on the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Iran has been detained, citing Iranian media sources.

An armed attack took place on the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran on January 27, 2023, at about 8:30 (GMT+4).

As a result of an armed attack, the Head of the security service of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Iran, Orkhan Asgarov, was killed, and two embassy security officers were injured.