TERRORISM

The statement of Iran's ambassador to Azerbaijan - Seyyed Abbas Mousavi on Twitter is a diplomatic threat to Azerbaijan.

This was announced on Wednesday on the ARB24 television channel by the deputy director of the International Information Agency “Trend” - Rufiz Hafizoglu.

According to him, Iran's policy towards Azerbaijan is becoming more and more radical and is developing in the direction of exporting terrorism.

As delivered by Ambassador Michael Carpenter 
to the Permanent Council, Vienna:

We express our condolences to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the families of those hurt and killed in the attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran.

The United States condemns any form of violence and is committed to ensuring the safety and security of foreign diplomatic missions.  We call on the Iranian authorities to investigate and hold those responsible for the attack accountable.

The Iranian regime has placed Yasin Huseynzade, an Iranian citizen who committed a terrorist attack against the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran, in a psychiatric hospital, Trend reports.

During the attack on the embassy, the head of the security service was killed and two embassy guards were injured.

Germany and France support the idea of including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of Iran's army, literally “Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution”, also called “Sepah” or “Pasdaran”, ) on the list of terrorist organizations. This was reported by the British newspaper "Financial Times" on Sunday evening, citing sources familiar with the progress of discussions on this matter.

As tensions between the two countries have been escalating, just a while ago, Iran "warned" that, if Azerbaijan takes any steps against the Islamic Republic, it will receive a "decisive reaction".

"The Republic of Azerbaijan should know that the Islamic Republic of Iran, as a powerful country in the region, will never allow its borders to be endangered," Brigadier General Alireza Taneh of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of the Iranian Armed Forces said.

Members of the European Parliament (EP) on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on the leadership of the European Union to include the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC, elite units of Iran's army, literally “Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution”), also called “Sepah” or “Pasdaran”, ) on the list of terrorist organizations. The message is from the Reuters agency.

The Armenian Prosecutor's Office has decided to reopen the investigation of the terrorist act in the Parliament, which took place in 1999, Arevik Khachatryan, press secretary of the Prosecutor General's Office, told “RIA Novosti” on December 25, 2019. This was reported by “Trend.az”, citing “RIA Novosti”.

On October 27, 1999, a group of terrorists stormed the plenary hall of the National Assembly of Armenia and shot down the leaders and members of Parliament and government, who were present there.

Pope Francis joined the thousands of Catholics, mourning the death of a Catholic priest in Syria.
“I am close to Armenian Catholics of Qamishli, in Syria, as they gather for the funeral of their parish priest, Father Hovsep Bedoyan, who was killed yesterday together with his father. I pray for them, their families, and for all Christians in Syria”, he wrote in Twitter.

Turkey has deported to Denmark a 28-year-old Palestinian man who is a Danish citizen - Ahmad Salem al Haya, who participated in the hostilities in Syria on the side of terrorist formations. He had already landed at Copenhagen Airport on Monday evening, where police detained him, Danish Radio reports.

The Islamic State terrorist grouping has claimed responsibility for the murder of a Catholic priest and his father on Monday, November 11, 2019 in Northern Syria.

Earlier, SANA news agency reported that the trustee of the Armenian Catholic Church, located in the border Syrian city of Qamishli and his father, had been shot dead in northeastern Syria, en route from Al-Hasakah governorate to Deir az Zour.