One security officer was shot dead and two security guards were injured when an attacker armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle stormed the Azerbaijani embassy in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The tragic incident took place on January 27.

President of Azerbaijan

Ilham Aliyev

called this attack a "terrorist act", and Baku officially announced the evacuation of the embassy, ​​blaming Iran for the incident.

"The intruder broke through the security post, killing the security chief with a Kalashnikov assault rifle," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reported.

Iranian state television quoted Tehran police chief

Hossein Rahimi

as saying that the attacker had been arrested and that he had "personal and family problems."

Rahimi said the attacker entered the embassy with two children.

However, the footage from surveillance cameras inside the embassy published in Azerbaijan shows the shooter entering the building by himself.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman

Nasser Kanaani

said that Tehran strongly condemns the attack, and that it is being investigated with "high priority and sensitivity."

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry

spokesman Aysan Khajizada

told local media that "all responsibility for the attack lies with Iran," as the recent anti-Azerbaijani campaign in Iranian media "encouraged the attack."

"Unfortunately, the latest bloody terrorist act demonstrates the serious consequences of not paying the necessary attention to our constant appeals in this regard," the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reads.