A crisis due to an attack on Azerbaijan

The ongoing military situation between the United States, Israel, and Iran is further escalating, creating a severe crisis regarding a drone attack on Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan autonomous region. One of the two drones, allegedly coming from the Iranian border, crashed into the terminal building of Nakhchivan International Airport, while the other fell near a school in Shakarabad village and exploded, injuring several civilians.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev condemned the attack as a cowardly act of terrorism, demanding an explanation and an apology from Iran, and has also put his armed forces on the highest alert. In response, Azerbaijan has temporarily suspended all truck traffic across the state border with Iran and summoned Iranian Ambassador Mojtaba Demirtchilou to its Ministry of Foreign Affairs to express strong protest. Furthermore, the President's focus on the 20 to 25 million ethnic Azerbaijanis living in Iran, stating that independent Azerbaijan is a place of hope for them, has caused strong displeasure in Iran.

However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi strongly deny their country's involvement in this attack. Iran states that targeting neighboring countries is not its policy and suspects that this could be a conspiracy orchestrated by Israel to disrupt relations between neighbors. The "Trump Path to International Peace and Prosperity" (Zangezur corridor), proposed with American involvement, has also been a significant factor behind this regional tension, with Iran continuously pointing out the risk of losing its direct connection with Armenia due to it.

Meanwhile, as war tensions further spread across the region, Qatar's Ministry of Defense announced that it successfully destroyed 13 missiles and 4 drones in its airspace, while Turkey also stated that a ballistic missile heading towards its airspace via Syria and Iraq was destroyed by NATO air defense systems over the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

In another significant event of the war, Israel launched a massive bombing attack on the Azadi Sports Complex, a major 12,000-seat stadium located in western Tehran, almost completely destroying it. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that Iranian security forces had been using this location for rest. In light of this entire situation, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has immediately closed the Strait of Hormuz to American, Israeli, and European ships, causing maritime traffic in the region to plummet by approximately 70 percent. Furthermore, it is reported that the 1,768-kilometer-long oil pipeline running from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Turkey, which transports over a million barrels of crude oil daily, is also under severe threat due to these conflicts.