Azerbaijan expels four Iranian embassy staff amid growing tensions

Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry announced on Thursday that it has declared four employees of Iran’s embassy in Baku persona non grata, as tensions between the two neighboring countries continue to escalate.

In a statement, the ministry said that it had summoned Iran’s ambassador, Abbas Mousavi, and informed him that the four individuals had been declared persona non grata “due to their activities that are incompatible with diplomatic status and contradict the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”