DERENIK MELIKYAN: IRAN SHARES ARMENIAN STANCE OF KARABAKH AND GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.09.2008 14:15 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ There are two Hay Dat offices in Iran. One is in
Tehran and the other is in Nor-Jugha, Derenik Melikyan, editor of
Aliq Tehran-based Armenian-language newspaper, told a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter.

"We organize April evenings, seminars on genocide studies, including
the Armenian Genocide. Books dedicated to Armenian-Iranian,
Turkish-Iranian and Armenian-Turkish relations are published," he said.

"Iran has tensed relations with Turkey and, moreover, with
Azerbaijan. Tehran doesn’t welcome Baku’s yearning for the Turkic
world. Panturanism is inadmissible for Iran. Maybe this is the reason
why it shares the Armenian stance of Karabakh and Genocide. Moreover,
thanks to the NKR security belt, the Armenian-Iranian border became
longer," Melikyan said.