{"id":54253,"date":"2025-05-21T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/iran-executes-man-over-2023-attack-on-azerbaijan-s-embassy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:10:20","slug":"iran-executes-man-over-2023-attack-on-azerbaijan-s-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/iran-executes-man-over-2023-attack-on-azerbaijan-s-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes man over 2023 attack on Azerbaijan&#8217;s embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man attacked the diplomatic mission on Jan. 27, 2023, with a Kalashnikov rifle, killing a staff member and injuring two others, Tehran Police told local media in the wake of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The man was executed after the completion of relevant judicial investigations and trial process, during which he was convicted of willfully murdering an Azerbaijani national using a firearm inside the embassy, purchasing, carrying, and keeping an illegal weapon and ammunition, and disrupting public order, the Mizan news agency affiliated with the judiciary reported.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling against him was also upheld by the Supreme Court of Iran, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the incident, Azerbaijan shut down its embassy in Iran. Baku described the attack as an &#8220;act of terror,&#8221; but Tehran said investigations revealed that the assailant had &#8220;personal and family-related&#8221; motives.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan reopened the embassy at a new location in Tehran in July 2024, after nearly a year and a half, with a guarantee from Iran that it would take appropriate measures to ensure the security of the new embassy. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-87740\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ir.jpg\" alt=\"Image from Mizan News shows the attacker, face blurred, sitting in court during his trial over the Azerbaijani embassy shooting. Photo by Iran International \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Iran on Wednesday executed a man who carried out a deadly armed attack on Azerbaijan&#8217;s embassy in Tehran in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000087739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000087739,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4316659cd77de6e9068093bb89d480f3d6e64d73-792x561.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4316659cd77de6e9068093bb89d480f3d6e64d73-792x561.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4316659cd77de6e9068093bb89d480f3d6e64d73-792x561.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4316659cd77de6e9068093bb89d480f3d6e64d73-792x561.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4316659cd77de6e9068093bb89d480f3d6e64d73-792x561.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4316659cd77de6e9068093bb89d480f3d6e64d73-792x561.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000087739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54253"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54253"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}