The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Azerbaijani ambassador to the carpet in connection with anti-Iranian propaganda by Azerbaijani officials and media.
The representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly protested and expressed Tehran's dissatisfaction with the unfriendly statements of senior Azerbaijani officials and the smear campaign against Iran in the Azerbaijani media. Tehran expects to take urgent measures to prevent such actions, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
The Azerbaijani ambassador, expressing regret over the situation, assured that he would immediately convey the protest of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Baku authorities.