The provocation achieved its goal: Azerbaijan closed its border with Iran

ArmInfo. A spokesman for the IRGC's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Command warned Azerbaijan that his country will not tolerate Zionist forces threatening Iran's security.

"The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite extensive military action against American and Zionist aggressors in the region, have made every effort to avoid harming the national security and interests of friendly, neighboring, and Muslim countries. We declare to Iran's neighbor, the Republic of Azerbaijan, as a Muslim country, that to prevent the spread of instability in the region, it is necessary to remove Zionists from its country and not jeopardize the security of its own people and Islamic Iran.

As a result, Azerbaijan temporarily closed its border with Iran to cargo traffic and restricted its airspace due to drone attacks on March 5, 2026, which damaged civilian facilities in Nakhchivan. In response to the incident, which Baku considered a terrorist attack, troops were put on alert and cargo traffic was suspended, redirecting cargo flows, including transit.

As a reminder, on March 5, 2026, an unknown drone carried out an attack. which damaged the airport in Nakhchivan. Without an investigation or investigation, official Baku blamed Tehran, which denied the accusations.

According to numerous analysts, Iran would never take irrational steps in the current situation, and the drone strike was most likely a provocation by a third party to create a pretext to draw Azerbaijan into the conflict.