Azerbaijan`s Deputy Minister of Defense Lieutenant General Karim Valiyev has visited the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Baku, the Ministry of Defense told AZERTAC.

The deputy minister signed a book of condolences which was opened at the embassy in regard to the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of the Research and Innovation Organization of the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics of Iran.

On behalf of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, he expressed condolences to Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Lieutenant General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri and Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Major General Amir Khatami.