Iran defended Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh with all its might, Mehr reported referring to the secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council Mohsen Rezaee.

"Thousands of Iranian men have been martyred to liberate Azerbaijan from the clutches of the tsars, and the proof can be found in the Baku cemetery," he said.

"Azerbaijan is not only our neighbor; We are a nation in two countries," he noted adding: "We and the people of Azerbaijan are a nation with a common culture and religion."

"Thousands of Iranian men have been martyred to liberate Azerbaijan from the clutches of the tsars, and this can be seen in the Baku cemetery."

"Unfortunately, the Armenian government, under the pretext of defending the Armenians of Karabakh, attacked the area; However, the governments that incited Armenia to attack it left Armenia alone afterward," Rezaei noted.

Rezaee noted that "in the 1990 war, Iran spent $43 million on the Karabakh immigrants and our Azeri brothers."

Expressing regret that during the time of Mr. Heydar Aliyev the relations between Iran and Azerbaijan were somewhat damaged, he said. 

"Our main task is to create a special autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh belonging to Azerbaijan; Armenia must also hand over the remaining territories," the secretary said.