Tag Archives: Armenia

In the background of Azerbaijan’s ongoing blockade of the only road in and out of Nagorno-Karabakh lies the fate of another critical transportation route: the would-be “Zangezur Corridor.” In the ceasefire agreement that ended the 2020 war, Armenia agreed to “guarantee the security of transport connections” between Azerbaijan’s mainland and …

Armenia gets the bulk of its natural gas from Russia. But ties with Moscow are fraying and Yerevan will soon have more alternatives Iran and Armenia have agreed to double the amount of natural gas that Iran sells to Armenia, and to extend their gas trade agreement to 2030. The …

The value of Iran’s export to Armenia increased 15 percent in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-October 22), from the first half of the previous year, an official with Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) announced. Rahmatollah Khormali, the director-general of the TPO’s office of Central …

Iran’s Oil Ministry said in a report that Iran and Armenia have renewed a contract for the swap of Iranian gas for Armenian electricity as Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was in Tehran for an official visit on Tuesday, Press TV reported. Deputy Oil Minister Majid Chegeni, who signed off …

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with the Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, Alan Simonyan on Saturday in Yerevan. During the meeting, Amir-Abdollahian pointed to Iranian government’s priority in cooperation with neighbors and emphasized the importance of respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Armenia like other neighbors …

Iranian Oil Minister Javad Oji has expressed the country’s readiness for swapping Turkmenistan’s natural gas to Armenia, Shana reported. Oji made the remarks in a meeting with Armenian Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan in Tehran on Monday. Speaking in this meeting, the Iranian minister also expressed the …

Iran exported $594 million worth of non-oil products to Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)’s member states, a commercial official said on Wednesday. Iran has exported $594 million of non-oil commodities to the EAEU so far, Chairman of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA) Masoud Khansari said at the …

The heads of the Iranian and Armenian delegations have held constructive talks on gas exports and extension of a gas-for-electricity barter contract. Following a meeting with Hakob Vardanyan – Deputy Minister of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources of the Republic of Armenia, Amir Hossein Zamaninia, Iranian Deputy Petroleum Minister for …

Elshad Nassirov, vice president of Azeri state energy company SOCAR, said on a conference call some of the energy infrastructure involved in shipping Caspian oil and gas to world markets is located in the vicinity of the current military operations. Fifteen servicemen from Azerbaijan and Armenia and one Azeri civilian …

Armenian Ambassador to Tehran Artashes Toumanian in a meeting with Head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) Hamid Zadboom underlined the necessity for the revival of trade relations between the two countries which were affected by the coronavirus outbreak.