 The plane scandal between Azerbaijan and Iran is growing. An Iranian military plane did not cross the border with Azerbaijan and therefore considers it wrong to summon the Iranian ambassador to the Azerbaijani foreign ministry for explanations. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said this at a briefing, the flight was normal. Such flights are carried out periodically as part of surveillance of Iran's border areas and on Iranian territory. Such flights have been carried out before. Kanani was quoted as saying by FAR's news agency, we have defence relations with Azerbaijan. Our embassy is active. Our military attache works there. You could have addressed the issue to the Iranian embassy and our military attache. An exchange of views could have taken place and the misunderstanding could have been resolved. We cannot consider the Azerbaijani government's summoning of the ambassador as a well-intentioned action. Kanani said it is to remind that on March the 11th in the morning for 40 minutes, an Iranian military plane flew along the Azerbaijani state border and in some places violated the border. Baku considered the flight as a provocation, demanding an explanation from Tehran. It was noted that the military aircraft of the Islamic Republic of Iran, so close to the state border between the two countries and flying over the border line, poses a threat to the safety of civil aviation and serves to further strain the relations between the two countries.