ArmInfo. September 1, the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan received the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Armenia Mehdi Sobhani.
As the press service of the RA MoD reports, the meeting was attended by the Defence Attach‚ of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Armenia, Colonel Bahman Sadeghin. A number of topics of Armenian-Iranian cooperation, as well as regional security issues were discussed. The Ambassador was briefed on the details about the Azerbaijani provocation near Sotk, on September 1.
Yesterday, the armed forces of Azerbaijan launched a massive attack on the advanced units of the Armenian Armed Forces using UAVs, mortars and small arms. When repelling the attack, three Armenian soldiers were killed, two were injured.