22 May in 13:00 Mikhail Belyaev, exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
As reported by the oppositional but informed Armenian newspaper Hraparak , about 160 soldiers of the Armenian Armed Forces are on the territory of Iran. Of course, we are not talking about the military invasion of the Armenian army battered during the Karabakh war into the territory of a strong regional power. A group of Armenian servicemen who fled from the advancing Azerbaijani army during last year s 44-day war in Karabakh is still in Iran. It is not known in what status Iran keeps them at home, the Armenian newspaper writes. It is noted that the issue of the Armenian soldiers who took refuge in Iran was discussed during the recent visit of a delegation of high-ranking military personnel of the Islamic Republic to Armenia. Gevorg Altunyan, the head of the information and public relations department of the Armenian Defense Ministry, gave the following answer to Hraparak s inquiry: The Defense Ministry does
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