What happened

A drone struck the terminal building of Razi Airport in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave around midday on 5 March, with a second drone falling near a school in the village of Shakarabad; two civilians were injured and the terminal sustained damage, according to Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry, which summoned Iran's ambassador. President Ilham Aliyev condemned what he called 'cowardly fire' and demanded accountability. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi explicitly denied Iranian involvement, with Araghchi suggesting Israel could be responsible to 'divert public opinion' and undermine Iran's regional relations. The reviewed reporting (Al Jazeera) frames the incident against the backdrop of the widening US-Israel-Iran war and longstanding Iranian concerns over Azerbaijan's ties to Israel and the proposed Zangezur transit corridor; no independent attribution beyond the two governments' competing statements was found. This record introduces the Iran-war spillover into the South Caucasus as a further conflict dimension in the site's airbase/airport-strike coverage.

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