{"id":26129,"date":"2023-01-11T19:56:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=26129"},"modified":"2023-01-11T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T18:54:29","slug":"amid-escalating-tensions-with-iran-azerbaijan-appoints-its-first-ambassador-to-israel-after-opening-an-embassy-in-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=26129","title":{"rendered":"Amid escalating tensions with Iran.. Azerbaijan appoints its first ambassador to Israel\u00a0after opening an embassy in Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div class=\"article-header__container__25s8m\">\n<div class=\"article-header__heading__15OpQ\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ashraf AboArafe<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-body__container__3ypuX article-body__over-6-para__1Ov64\">\n<div class=\"article-body__content__17Yit paywall-article\">\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Amid escalating tensions with its large southern neighbour Iran, the Republic of Azerbaijan on Thursday announced the appointment of its first-ever ambassador to Israel, less than two months after approving the opening of an embassy in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-limit-wall__article-limit-wall-wrapper__3FE3N article-body__limit-wall__1Yd-t\">\n<div class=\"article-limit-wall__card-wrapper__3M1Gw article-limit-wall__margin-bottom-24__2ORsd\">\n<div class=\"card__card-wrapper__3ax0o card__compact__t1R9q\">\n<div class=\"card__card__20_aH\">\n<div class=\"card__content__2EG50\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The role will be filled by Azerbaijan\u2019s Deputy Education Minister Mukhtar Mammadov, according to local and Hebrew media reports. As deputy minister, Mammadov had been responsible for cooperative projects with Israel in the fields of science and education.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-5.28.14-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26130 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-5.28.14-PM-1024x608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-5.28.14-PM-1024x608.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-5.28.14-PM-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-5.28.14-PM-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-5.28.14-PM.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>The appointment was made a day after Azerbaijan\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Azerbaijan Fariz Rzayev landed in Israel for an official visit. In remarks upon landing, Rzayev said that following his country\u2019s decision to open an embassy in Israel, \u201cthe sky is the limit\u201d for the two countries\u2019 bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf AboArafe Amid escalating tensions with its large southern neighbour Iran, the Republic of Azerbaijan on Thursday announced the appointment of its first-ever ambassador to Israel, less than two months after approving the opening of an embassy in Tel Aviv. The role will be filled by Azerbaijan\u2019s Deputy Education Minister Mukhtar Mammadov, according to local &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,388],"tags":[1845,1814,1907,14074,3939,7549,9227,14075,8602,6578,3535,5226,14073],"class_list":["post-26129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-slide","tag-after","tag-ambassador","tag-amid","tag-an-embassy","tag-appoints","tag-azerbaijan","tag-escalating","tag-in-tel-aviv","tag-its-first","tag-opening","tag-tensions","tag-to-israel","tag-with-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26142,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26129\/revisions\/26142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}