The spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed any change in the borderlines following a recent peace deal between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia, saying Tehran views a new corridor mentioned in the agreement as nothing more than a transit route.
Speaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, Saeed Khatibzadeh welcomed the Russian-brokered deal between Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan that ended six weeks of fierce fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
He also emphasized that Iran’s border in the northwestern regions has not changed at all and is not going to change in future either.
“Neither has any border changed, nor does the Islamic Republic accept any change other than what has been announced,” the spokesman underlined, saying Iran considers the corridor cited in the peace agreement as a simple transit route whose security arrangements need to be discussed.
Asked whether Iran should also have peace-keeping forces in the region, Khatibzadeh said, “The Islamic Republic has played and will play its strategic role in all regional equations.”
Under the peace agreement in Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan agreed to give Baku a new transit route through southern Armenia to Azerbaijan’s southwestern exclave of Nakhichevan.
According to the deal, Russian peacekeepers have been deployed along the front line in Nagorno-Karabakh and the route between the region and Armenia.
Source: Iranian Agencies
