Azerbaijan has become the first Muslim country to send humanitarian aid to Iran in order to meet the current needs of the neighboring and friendly Iranian people, says the Azerbaijani APA news agency. According to the report, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ordered the aid to be dispatched following an eight-minute phone call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The news agency reported that the humanitarian aid sent to the Islamic Republic of Iran by vehicles of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations include 10 tons of flour, 6 tons of rice, 2.4 tons of sugar, more than 4 tons of water, nearly 600 kg of tea, and almost 2 tons of medicines and medical supplies. The report comes a day after tensions rose between Azerbaijan and Iran following a drone strike targeting Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan enclave amid the ongoing Middle East war.
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Azerbaijan accused Iran of launching the drones and threatened to retaliate, however Tehran vehemently denied any involvement in the incident. Instead, it blamed Israel for initiating an attack, a drone strike on Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan became the first country to send humanitarian aid to Iran
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied that Tehran had launched any drone towards Azerbaijani counterpart. He said Iran’s armed forces were investigating the reported explosions and accused Israel of seeking to disrupt relations between Muslim countries to harm Iran’s ties with its neighbours. Last week, the army head Turkey has said that NATO air defenses intercepted last week.
He said Iran’s armed forces are investigating the reported explosion and accused Israel of seeking to disrupt relations between the Muslim countries to harm Iran’s ties with its neighbours. Turkey has said that NATO air defences intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile that entered its airspace last week. Ankara protested to Tehran and is considering deploying F-16 fighter jets to the northern Cyprus as a precautionary security measure. Cyprus also reported a drone strike on a British base on the island.
