Gunman Kills One at Azerbaijani Embassy in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The Foreign Ministry in Baku said a recent "anti-Azerbaijan campaign" in Iran had encouraged the gunman and said it was evacuating embassy employees and their family members.
46% : It said Iranian authorities hadn't adequately protected the embassy despite "attempts to threaten our diplomatic mission in Iran before."
43% : "We do not think that the attack on the embassy of Azerbaijan in Iran was carried out on personal grounds," a spokesman for Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry told Report, a Baku-based pro-government news agency.
38% : Iran, home to millions of ethnic Azeris, has long accused Baku of fomenting separatist sentiments in the west of the Islamic Republic.
36% : "I firmly condemn the act of terrorism carried out at the embassy of Azerbaijan in Tehran," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev posted on Twitter, as he demanded a swift investigation and punishment of the alleged perpetrator.
34% : Last year, hard-liners in Iran issued threats against Azerbaijan after the former Soviet nation began receiving military equipment from Israel.

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