Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan talked by phone with his Armenian and Azeri counterparts on Sunday, calling on the two sides to show restraint and settle disputes on Nagorno-Karabakh via peaceful negotiations, Tasnim news agency reports.
According to the Defense Ministry, Brigadier General Dehqan called for an immediate end to the military confrontation between the two northern neighbors of Iran.
In the telephone conversations with Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov and Armenia’s Seyran Ohanian, the Iranian general called upon the two countries to exercise restraint and settle the conflicts through dialogue.