After visiting the injured victims of the bitter event in a meeting with the press, Amirabdollahian said, "As of the beginning of the incidence and the spread news about it, President Ebrahim Raisi issued strict orders for legal and judiciary surveys and severe dealing with anyone who has possibly neglected their duties, or need to be introduced to the judiciary system, including the attacker himself."
He expressed satisfaction that the attacker had right after committing the crime been arrested by the Iranian police officers and interrogations from him continued till noon time on Friday.
The foreign minister said from the reports by the interior minister, the intelligence minister, the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Information Organization, the IRGC Intelligence Office and the Command Headquarters of Armed Forces, have been received, adding, "Today I spoke with my counterpart Mr. Jeyhun Bayramov in details and we agreed that Mr. ambassador will return to Tehran tonight.
"Also, the team of my colleagues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the managing directors of Eurasia Affairs, the Ceremonial Affairs, and everyone at the Foreign Ministry spent their efforts so that the two sides will pass through this phase without providing any pretexts for the enemies of the two countries' amicable relations," he added.
He said that the Iranian intelligence services consulted each other on Friday evening and reflected the latest status and information about the attacker and his incentives to Baku officials.
The foreign minister further reiterated, "According to our colleagues' findings so far in both the security and the judiciary sections, the attacker merely has personal incentives about the status of his wife."
Amirabdollahian said that whether his wife is in Azerbaijan Republic and he has not been able to contact her, or he had other incentives, are all under survey, adding, "But the method of the operation, according to the security and police forces, reveal that this has not been a premeditated terrorist attack, but a move made based on personal incentives, similar events with which had in past years happened for Iranian diplomats in Iraq, London and Beijing."
The foreign minister added that also in near past, a similar incidence occurred for a Russian diplomat in a neighboring country.
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