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Baku withdrawing staff from embassy in Iran after drone attack on Azerbaijan
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This image taken from a video shows damages at the Nakhchivan International Airport following what Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said was a drone attack carried out by Iran on its exclave of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo)
Azerbaijan is withdrawing its diplomats from Iran for their own safety, Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov says, a day after Baku said four Iranian drones had crossed its border and injured four people in the Nakhchivan exclave.
He says Azerbaijan is evacuating employees from its embassy in Tehran and its consulate general in Tabriz.
Azerbaijan has warned it could retaliate against Tehran for the drones, two of which hit an airport and near a school.
Iran has not acknowledged targeting Azerbaijan, but its retaliatory attacks have spread erratically to include regional countries and beyond amid an intense joint US-Israeli air campaign that began over the weekend.
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