TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian has visited those injured in Friday’s attack on the Azerbaijani embassy.
Immediately after the incident, the minister said, President Ebrahim Raisi ordered an investigation into the shooting and punish the attacker and those accused of negligence.
Amir-Abdollahian also said he held talks with his Azeri counterpart and they agreed that the Azerbaijani ambassador return to Tehran.
The top Iranian diplomat said the two sides are making efforts to leave the incident behind them.
The foreign minister said Iranian security officials also brief Azerbaijan’s authorities on the latest findings and the attacker’s motives.
He said all indications show that the assailant only had personal motives and that he did the attack because of what had happened to his wife.
The attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran killed a diplomat staffer and wounded two others.
Iranian officials have strongly condemned the act and offered condolences to Azerbaijan’s government and people, particularly the family of the victim.
The attacker says he carried out the raid because the Azerbaijani embassy ignored his requests for information about his wife who is from the former Soviet republic.