The killing of the embassy’s head of security strained an already tense relationship between the neighboring countries.
Iran on Wednesday executed a man who was convicted of murder after he stormed the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran in 2023 and killed its head of security, according to Mizan, the news outlet of the Iranian judiciary.
The attack strained an already tense relationship between the two countries. Iran had said the man, an Iranian citizen named Yasin Hosseinzadeh, was motivated by personal issues, but President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan called it a terrorist attack.
Mr. Hosseinzadeh was convicted of murder, and the death sentence was upheld by Iran’s supreme court in January, according to state media.
During the trial, the attacker told the court that he went to the embassy with an AK-47 assault rifle because he thought his wife was hiding there and was not willing to meet with him, the judiciary statement said.
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