Azerbaijan will evacuate embassy staff and family members from Iran on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, two days after a gunman shot a security guard dead and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an "act of terrorism."

 

Police in Tehran said they had arrested a suspect and Iranian authorities condemned Friday's incident but said the gunman appeared to have had a personal, not a political, motive.

 

The incident came amid increased tensions between the neighboring countries over Iran's treatment of its large ethnic Azeri minority and over Azerbaijan's decision this month to appoint its first-ever ambassador to Israel.

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