Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian reaffirmed Tehran's call for comprehensive and lasting peace in the Caucasus region, warning against foreign exploitation of the situation there.



Following a joint presser with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday, the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian took to Twitter to say that, "Today I hosted Mr. Ararat Mirzoyan, my colleague from the Republic of Armenia.

He added, "We agreed on the deepening of cooperation and considered the prospect of bilateral trade exchanges at 3 billion dollars."

He went on to say that what Iran seeks in the Caucasus region is lasting peace and cooperation without the presence of foreign interference.

"Therefore, we welcome the progress of the talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia," the foreign minister of Iran concluded

Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan remain relatively high nearly two years after the arch-foes fought a war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The six-week conflict, which claimed more than 6,500 lives on both sides, ended in November 2020 with a Russian-brokered deal.

Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but has been populated by ethnic Armenians. Russia has deployed 1,960 peacekeepers to the region for an initial five-year period. Since the truce, the two sides have accused each other of breaching the peace deal.

Back in July, Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov, held their first talks in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi since the deadly 2020 war.