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Drones hit airport in Azeri exclave, Baku blames Iran

  • Märkte: Crude oil, Natural gas
  • 05.03.26

An airport in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Iran, Turkey and Armenia, came under attack by drones on 5 March, which Azerbaijan blamed on Iran.

Two drones fell on the airport terminal and an area near a school, according to Azerbaijan's ministry of foreign affairs. The drones injured two people and damaged the terminal building.

"Azerbaijan reserves the right to take corresponding measures," the ministry said.

Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev visited the Iranian embassy on 4 March to express his condolences regarding the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian officials have in the past criticised Azerbaijan for its relations with Israel, which meets some of its crude requirements through purchases of Azeri Light crude, exported through the 1,768km Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, running through Georgia and Turkey.

Turkey has a military pact with Azerbaijan, obliging it to protect the latter in case of an armed conflict.

The conflict between the US, Israel and Iran has an increasingly wide footprint. A UK military base in Cyprus was hit by a drone on 1 March, a US submarine sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on 3 March, and the Turkish government on 4 March said a missile fired from Iran was shot down over its territory by Nato forces.


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