A criminal case has been initiated in connection with the terrorist act committed against the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Iran.

Axar.az reports that the website of the State Security Service published information about this.

It was reported that on January 27, around 08:30 in the morning Baku time, an armed attack was made on the embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The assailant killed the head of the embassy's security service Asgarov Orkhan Rizvan oghlu and injured two other guards after destroying the security post with a Kalashnikov automatic weapon. However, the embassy staff disarmed the criminal and stopped his criminal activities.