Iran-Azerbaijan Relations

Chief of Staff of the Iranian President’s Office Mahmoud Vaezi and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev have stressed the need to broaden economic and trade ties between the two neighbours and expedite the implementation of the previous agreements.

Iran has expressed its readiness to contribute to a permanent and definitive settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Iran and the Azerbaijan Republic have agreed to forge closer cooperation in the energy sector.

Reactions are pouring in to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s interventionist remarks about the reunion of Azeri-speaking people of Iran and Azerbaijan Republic.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lashed out at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a poem he recited in Baku about the separation of Azeri-speaking people north and south of Aras River.

Foreign Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijani Jeyhun Bayramov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif had a meeting in Tehran on Wednesday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed the country’s readiness to play a role in maintaining a ceasefire between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia and to take part in the process of reconstruction in the recently-liberated Azeri lands.

The foreign ministers of Iraq and Azerbaijan Republic have separately condemned the Friday assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his counterpart from the Azerbaijan Republic Jeyhun Bairamov had a videoconference call on Wednesday.

Tehran says it will continue consultations will all parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to make sure peace will take hold in the region.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's planned trips to Russia and the Azerbaijan Republic have been postponed to a later date, according to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh.

Iran has reiterated that no change will take place in the country’s borders as the Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia are implementing a ceasefire agreement.

Iran has rejected rumours about the consequences of the ceasefire agreement between Armenia and the Azerbaijan Republic, saying no change will take place in the Iran’s transit routes toward either of the two countries.

A senior Iranian official says the Russia-brokered peace agreement between the Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia was in keeping with Iran’s initiative.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has, in a statement, welcomed the recent agreement reached between the Azerbaijan Republic, Armenia and Russia to end the Karabakh conflict.

A senior Iranian military commander has seriously warned warring sides to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that they should not provide for the presence of terrorists and Israelis near Iran’s borders.

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Leader has warned about the presence of terrorists operating near the Iranian borders as the Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia remain engaged in a military conflict.

The Iranian president's special envoy says Tehran still hopes the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis will be settled despite the fact that negotiations to resolve the conflict have broken down so far.

The Iranian foreign minister has announced details of Tehran’s initiative to help settle the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says an initiative developed by Tehran for the settlement of the conflict between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region would pave the way for peace.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi has kicked off negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow, to promote Tehran initiative aimed at resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs has sat down with the Azerbaijan Republic’s President Ilham Aliyev in the Azeri capital, Baku.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi is to set off on a regional tour, as Iran’s special envoy, to promote Tehran’s initiative to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis and the clashes between the Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia.

The Ground Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has deployed a mechanized brigade to protect the country’s northwestern border amid ongoing firefight between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

A senior Iranian military official has warned Baku and Yerevan, the Karabakh warring sides, that the Iranian military will counter any security threats along its borders.