Azeri leader wants Iran to exert economic pressure on Armenia – TV

Excerpt from report by Azerbaijani private TV station ATV
25 January

[Presenter] The second day of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s
official visit to Iran has ended. In the morning, the president met
Iranian Majlis Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel and Chairman of the
Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. In his talks with
Rafsanjani, the head of state expressed the wish that official Tehran
exert economic pressure on Armenia.

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[ATV correspondent] Rasad Huseynov has the details from Tehran.

[Correspondent, by phone] The meeting between the former Iranian
president and incumbent chairman of the Expediency Council, Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev focused on
the Nagornyy Karabakh problem. Aliyev said the fact that Azerbaijani
territories were under occupation posed a threat to the whole
region. The president said that the talks which have been going on for
more than 10 years are fruitless. He spoke highly of official Tehran’s
position on the conflict. Asked by Rafsanjani how Iran could help
Azerbaijan deal with the conflict, Aliyev said: We would like Iran to
continue to maintain the position on Nagornyy Karabakh that it has
expressed within the framework of international organizations. At the
same time, we want official Tehran to exert economic pressure on
Armenia.

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