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Azeri Foreign Ministry summons Iranian ambassador after embassy attack in Tehran

Iran’s Nour News Agency, which if affiliated with the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, says the country’s Ambassador to Baku Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has been summoned by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.

Nour News said Mousavi was summoned in protest against Friday’s armed attack on the Azeri embassy in Tehran.

The attack killed one person and wounded two more.

The person who got killed was an employee of the embassy.

The attacker is in custody now and word is he did the attack out of personal motives.

According to news reports, Azerbaijan now says it is going to vacate its embassy in Tehran.

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