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Iran's President hails relations with Azerbaijan as “friendly, brotherly and strategic”.
6 March 2017
Iran and Azerbaijan say relations are getting closer as President Ilham Aliyev pays official visit to Tehran. The Azerbaijani president also met with the Iranian Supreme leader, Grand Ayattolah Khamanei
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Iran Culture Minister hosts leaders of religious minorities
7 February 2017
Among those attending was Armenian Orthodox primate of the diocese of Tehran, Archbishop Sebuh Sarkisian.
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Armenia seeks to expand defence ties with Iran
2 February 2017
Armenian Defence Minister, Vigan Sargsyan, met his Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Tuesday (31 January). Both sides expressed their readiness to strengthen co-operation in the defence sphere.
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Analysis: The symbolic importance of Jojuk Marjanli for Azerbaijan
29 January 2017
The joyous event of the return of displaced people to their homes is tempered by the prospect that it may trigger further violence if politicians on both sides don't rise to their responsibility, and renew with vigour their efforts to resolve the conflict peacefully.
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Iran to hold large-scale naval exercises in the Indian Ocean in February
29 January 2017
Iran's Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, said the Iranian navy will soon embark on missions in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as well
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Iran's former President Rafsanjani, dies
9 January 2017
He served as president from 1989 to 1997, and afterwards remained an important personality within the Iranian political establishment, and continued to serve until his death as head of the country's Expediency Council,
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Iran's Armenians start Christmas celebrations
4 January 2017
Members of Iran's large Armenian community gathered at St Sarkis Cathedral in Tehran on Saturday to welcome the new year and give a start to the Christmas celebrations, which the Armenian Apostolic Church marks on 6 January.
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For the South Caucasus countries, risks from external factors will be higher in 2017
31 December 2016
In 2017 Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will have to navigate through an even more challenging and complicated regional and international context, and with heightened risks
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Iranian ICT Minister in Baku
27 December 2016
Mahmoud Vaezi is in Baku to attend the 11th meeting of the Azerbaijani-Iranian intergovernmental commission on economic, trade and humanitarian issues which will discuss opportunities for expansion of bilateral ties.