1000S OF IRANIAN ARMENIANS MARCH IN TEHERAN ON MONDAY TO EXPRESS CONDEMNATION OF 1915 ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN TURKEY
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
April 26 2006
YEREVAN, April 26. /ARKA/. 20 thousand Iranian Armenians took to the
streets in Teheran on Monday holding banners with words of the 1915
Armenian Genocide condemnation on them, Armenian Foreign Ministry
press service reports.
On the same day, Haykazun Alvrtsyan, lecturer at Yerevan State
University, spoke in Ararat culture center as well as Armenian
Ambassador to Iran Karen Nazaryan and Armenian Apostolic Church
Teheran Diocese Archbishop Sepuh Sargsyan.
A memorial service was held in St. Sargis church in Teheran and floral
tribute was paid to the genocide victims.
Iranian media outlets paid attention to Armenian Genocide. In
particular, Iran News daily published an interview of Armenian
Ambassador to Iran.