Ned Price: Iranian government obliged to ensure foreign diplomats’ safety

US State Department spokesman Ned Price has condemned the attack at the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran, Report informs.

“We condemn today’s attack at the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran and remind the Iranian Government that it is obliged to ensure foreign diplomats’ safety in Iran. We offer our deepest condolences to the loved ones of Orkhan Asgarov and to the injured,” he tweeted.

A gunman stormed the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran, killing the head of the embassy's security service on January 27. Two other officers of the security service were wounded while resisting the attack. Their condition is satisfactory.

The attacker was detained by employees of the Azerbaijani embassy.