{"id":240759,"date":"2026-03-05T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=240759"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:13:01","slug":"irans-army-general-staff-says-israel-responsible-for-drone-incident-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/240759\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s army general staff says Israel responsible for drone incident in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The General Staff of Iran&rsquo;s Armed Forces has denied reports that it launched a drone toward Azerbaijani territory, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama\/26664489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Islamic Republic of Iran, while respecting the sovereignty of all countries, particularly Muslim and neighboring states, denies launching any drones toward the Republic of Azerbaijan,&rdquo; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The General Staff also claimed that Israel was responsible for the drone incident in Azerbaijan, stating that it was carried out in order to blame Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Staff of Iran&rsquo;s Armed Forces has denied reports that it launched a drone toward Azerbaijani territory, TASS reports. &ldquo;The Islamic Republic of Iran, while respecting the sovereignty of all countries, particularly Muslim and neighboring states, denies launching any drones toward the Republic of Azerbaijan,&rdquo; the statement said. The General Staff also claimed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":240756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,95,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-azerbeijan","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240761,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240759\/revisions\/240761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}