A total of 312 people have been evacuated from Iran via Azerbaijan since Saturday, including 101 Azerbaijanis and others from 19 countries, including China, Russia, and Pakistan, a source close to the government in Baku said on Monday.
The 312 entered Azerbaijan between 8 a.m. local time on February 28 and 10 a.m. on March 2, amid US and Israeli strikes on Iran over the weekend, the source said.
Iran and Azerbaijan share a 428-mile border, and Iran has a large ethnic Azerbaijani population.
Russia's embassy in Baku said on Sunday that about 500 Russian nationals were preparing to evacuate from Iran to Azerbaijan via the Astara crossing on the Caspian Sea, with 39 having crossed by the end of Sunday.
Moscow has advised its citizens to move to safer areas in Israel and Iran and recommended that those in Iran leave via Armenia or Azerbaijan.
UK working on plans to help its citizens leave Gulf countries
British foreign minister Yvette Cooper said on Monday that her team was looking at all options, including evacuation, to help hundreds of thousands of UK citizens leave Gulf countries which are now being targeted by Iran.
There are an estimated 300,000 British citizens - residents, families on holidays, and some in transit - in Gulf countries, and 102,000 people in the region have registered their presence with the UK government since the attacks started on Saturday.
When asked whether she was planning an evacuation from those countries, Cooper said officials were setting up "support systems."
"We're working on every possible option," she told Sky News. "We have to recognize the scale of this as well, and also the fact that there are strikes still underway."
Some 240,000 British nationals live in Dubai alone, according to 2024 estimates by relocation firm John Mason International Movers.