I ran is prepared to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan to help resolve a long-running dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh with full respect for the territorial integrity of the two states, says Tehran’s former diplomat in Baku. 

“If both parties are interested, Iran is ready to intervene with goodwill and respect for the territorial integrity of the two neighboring countries and help settle the issue in a way that would serve their national interests,” Mohsen Pak-Ayeen also told ISNA in a recent interview.

Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of Azerbaijan, is run by ethnic Armenians who declared independence from Baku during a conflict that broke out as the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991.