{"id":76614,"date":"2026-03-05T23:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/azerbaijan-accuses-iran-drone-attack-airport-injured-people"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:47:41","slug":"azerbaijan-accuses-iran-of-terrorist-drone-attack-on-airport-that-injured-four-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76614","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan accuses Iran of \u2018terrorist\u2019 drone attack on airport that injured four people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran denies responsibility but strike raises prospect of US-Israel war on Iran spreading beyond Middle East<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/05\/iran-war-latest-updates-canada-carney-trump-israel-tehran-strikes\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Azerbaijan has accused Iran of a \u201cterrorist\u201d drone attack that struck an airport and injured four civilians, raising concerns the conflict could spread beyond the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s defence ministry said Iran fired four drones at the country, one of which hit the terminal building at the only airport in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Iran. A second drone fell close to a school in a nearby village, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/azerbaijan-accuses-iran-drone-attack-airport-injured-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran denies responsibility but strike raises prospect of US-Israel war on Iran spreading beyond Middle EastMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesAzerbaijan has accused Iran of a \u201cterrorist\u201d drone attack that struck an airport and injured four civilians, r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1551,221,448,212,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76614\/revisions\/76615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}