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Presidential aide: Azerbaijan views Iran as a partner

01 December 2025 12:42 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan is looking forward to further develop economic and trade relations with Iran, said Hikmat Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan - Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan, in an interview with EU Today in Brussels, APA reports.

Turning to Iran, Hajiyev said that, from Baku’s perspective, the diplomatic fall-out from the armed attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran has now been managed. The attacker, he noted, had been prosecuted under Iranian law, and Azerbaijan had “completely turned that page”. Relations, he said, were now “normal and stable”, and he referred to what he called good personal chemistry between President Ilham Aliyev and President Masoud Pezeshkian. Iran features in Baku’s wider connectivity plans through the Aghband–Kelaleh road bridge over the Araz River, which is due to be structurally completed by the end of 2025, with border and customs infrastructure expected in early 2026. “We see Iran as a neighbour, as a partner, and [are] looking forward to further develop economic and trade relations,” Hikmet Hajiyev said.