Iran dismisses claims about transfer of Russian arms to Armenia

Iran's embassy in the Republic of Azerbaijan has rejected reports by certain media outlets about the transfer of Russia's military equipment to Armenia via the Islamic Republic.

Reports by some media about the transfer of Russian weapons and other military equipment to Armenia through Iran's Norduz border crossing are false, the embassy said in a statement on Monday.

The statement added that circulation of such news is an act of sabotage by those who oppose close relations between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan with the purpose of undermining the developing cooperation and friendship between the two countries.

Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia have for decades been locked in a simmering conflict over Karabakh – an Azerbaijani territory seized by Armenian separatists in a bloody war in the 1990s.

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