Azerbaijan’s government has accused Iran of carrying out a drone attack on Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan International Airport, that has injured at least two people. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said they “strongly condemn these drone strikes from the Islamic Republic of Iran, which resulted in damage to the airport building and the injury of two civilians.” The strike occurred roughly 10 kilometres from the Iranian border in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, an Azerbaijani exclave, at around noon on Thursday (5 March).
The ministry has summoned Iran’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, demanding an explanation, and said that “the Azerbaijani side reserves the right to take appropriate retaliatory measures.”
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi denied that Iran was targeting “neighbouring countries.”
Gharibabadi added that targeting neighbouring countries was not “the policy of Iran […] unless the military bases of our adversaries, namely the Zionist regime and the United States of America, are active there and are used to attack innocent people in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Iran has in the past accused Azerbaijan of allowing hostile forces to stage attacks on its territory, including during the June 2025 US-Israeli bombing campaign.
Update from Caucasian Knot:
Another drone crashed near a school in the village of Shekerabad.
Source: commonspace.eu with OC Media and Caucasian Knot
