{"id":175009,"date":"2025-08-19T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=175009"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:57:41","slug":"armenia-and-iran-express-mutual-willingness-to-elevate-relations-to-strategic-level-says-pashinyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/175009\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia and Iran express mutual willingness to elevate relations to strategic level, says Pashinyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met and held talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, after which statements were issued. This is Pezeshkian&rsquo;s first visit to Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>Nikol Pashinyan noted that Armenian-Iranian relations are based on historical friendship and emphasized the importance of raising them to the level of strategic partnership. He highlighted Iran&rsquo;s clear support for Armenia&rsquo;s territorial integrity and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>The sides discussed regional peace, unblocking economic infrastructure, and reopening communication routes. Pashinyan also outlined the details of the preliminary peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pashinyan, reopening communication routes&mdash;particularly the operation of the Nakhijevan-Julfa railway line&mdash;will open new opportunities for both Armenia and Iran, providing railway access toward the Black Sea. Pashinyan stated that all communication routes passing through Armenia will remain under Armenia&rsquo;s exclusive jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met and held talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, after which statements were issued. This is Pezeshkian&rsquo;s first visit to Armenia. Nikol Pashinyan noted that Armenian-Iranian relations are based on historical friendship and emphasized the importance of raising them to the level of strategic partnership. He highlighted Iran&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":174919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,96,118,39,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-region","category-army","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175010,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175009\/revisions\/175010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}