Azerbaijan says it is sending humanitarian aid to Iran, in an apparent offer to extend an olive branch days after an alleged Iranian drone attack triggered fears Of The Middle East war spilling over.
Earlier Baku accused Tehran of “terrorism” after Iranian drones hit an airport and exploded near a school last week, wounding four people in Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhichevan, which borders Iran. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ordered the armed forces to prepare retaliatory measures, placing them on the highest level of mobilization, and its diplomats were pulled out of the country.
However in what seems to be a possible attempt at reconciliation, Azerbaijan’s Emergency Situations Ministry said it had shipped tonnes of food and medicine to Iran “following the telephone conversation on March 8 between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Iran”.