{"id":76620,"date":"2026-03-06T03:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2026\/mar\/05\/iran-denies-responsibility-for-azerbaijan-drone-strike-video"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:13:26","slug":"iran-denies-responsibility-for-azerbaijan-drone-strike-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76620","title":{"rendered":"Iran denies responsibility for Azerbaijan drone strike \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drone has struck the only airport in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Iran. A second fell close to a school in a nearby village, Azerbaijan\u2019s defence ministry said. The strike would be the first Iranian attack on a Caucasus state since the start of the US-Israeli war on the country. Tehran has denied responsibility, but the strike raises prospect of conflict spreading beyond Middle East <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/azerbaijan-accuses-iran-drone-attack-airport-injured-people\">Azerbaijan accuses Iran of \u2018terrorist\u2019 drone attack on airport that injured four people<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/04\/airstrikes-hit-iran-iraq-border-as-us-and-israeli-plan-to-mobilise-kurds-gathers-pace\">Airstrikes hit Iran-Iraq border as US and Israeli plan to mobilise Kurds gathers pace<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\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> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2026\/mar\/05\/iran-denies-responsibility-for-azerbaijan-drone-strike-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drone has struck the only airport in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Iran. A second fell close to a school in a nearby village, Azerbaijan\u2019s defence ministry said. The strike would be the first Iranian attack on a Caucasus state since th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[1551,448,212,61,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76620","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76621,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76620\/revisions\/76621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}