Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani added his voice to international calls for an end to the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh and spoke out against “any foreign intervention in this matter” during a phone conversation with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday.
Armenia says it will extend the closure of its border with neighboring Iran, where an outbreak of the coronavirus has killed dozens of people.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed his country’s readiness to supply more natural gas to neighboring Armenia and deepen broader Armenian-Iranian relations when he visited Yerevan on Tuesday.
An expensive railway connecting Armenia to neighboring Iran will not be constructed anytime soon, Transport and Communications Minister Ashot Hakobian acknowledged on Thursday.
