Head of Iran-Azerbaijan Joint Chamber of Commerce Hossein Pirmoazen criticized Azerbaijan Republic for not issuing visas for Iranian traders and said Azerbaijan has handed over some projects in Karabakh to Israeli companies.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh referred to the Armenia and Azerbaijan clashes in the northwestern border of Iran, said that Tehran cannot tolerate conflict on its borders.
Armenia said on Saturday it would use “all necessary means” to protect ethnic Armenians from attack by Azerbaijan, which said its forces had captured a string of villages in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused one another on Tuesday of firing directly into each other’s territory and rejected pressure to hold peace talks as their conflict over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh threatened to mushroom into all-out war.
