{"id":56876,"date":"2025-06-01T11:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=56876"},"modified":"2025-06-01T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:17:54","slug":"assailant-in-azerbaijan-embassy-attack-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/56876\/assailant-in-azerbaijan-embassy-attack-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"Assailant in Azerbaijan embassy attack executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cThe law of retribution was implemented this morning against the attacker of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran,\u201d the Judiciary said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2023, the\u00a0man shot dead one person and injured two others after entering Azerbaijan&#8217;s embassy in the Iranian capital, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Following the attack, Azerbaijan\u2019s relations with Iran were strained, as Baku closed its embassy and evacuated staff over what it called a \u201cterrorist act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An initial Iranian investigation found that the attack was motivated by \u201cpersonal and family-related issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In mid-2024, Azerbaijan reopened its embassy after the court sentenced the assailant to death.<\/p>\n<p>As the two countries strengthen their bilateral ties,\u00a0President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Baku late last month.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries also held joint military drills in November and earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe law of retribution was implemented this morning against the attacker of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran,\u201d the Judiciary said on Wednesday. In January 2023, the\u00a0man shot dead one person and injured two others after entering Azerbaijan&#8217;s embassy in the Iranian capital, Press TV reported. Following the attack, Azerbaijan\u2019s relations with Iran were strained, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}