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The Iranian embassy in Armenia is not commenting on personal statements. 

Referring to the remarks on Karabakh by Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pak Ayeen that “Iran recognizes Karabakh as Azerbaijan’s territory,” a spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Armenia, Hamid Moradkhani, said to Panorama.am, in part, “Iran thinks that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should be resolved through peaceful negotiations. We are convinced that regional countries are able to solve their problems themselves. Iran is ready to make efforts in the peaceful resolution of the conflict. Iran’s position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has not changed. Therefore, the Iranian embassy in Armenia is not commenting on personal statements.”

The modern phase of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) conflict broke out in 1988, when, as a response to the peaceful demand for self-determination of the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), annexed to Soviet Azerbaijan in 1921, the Azerbaijani authorities carried out ethnic cleansing of Armenians – at first in the big cities of Azerbaijan, and then in Artsakh.
In September 1991 Artsakh declared independence, and, as a result, Azerbaijan exacerbated the violences and started large-scale military actions against Artsakh. After number of defeats on the frontlines, in May 1994 Azerbaijan was forced ask for a cease-fire from the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic).

Currently, the negotiations on the settlement of the conflict are being conducted under the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs (Russia, USA and France), based on the Madrid proposals, presented in November 2007.