Foreign Ministry denies report of Iranian president's planned to visit Armenia
The Armenian Foreign Ministry on Monday denied a TASS report that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi planned to visit Armenia on Sunday but the visit was postponed at the last minute.
"Official information is provided about the confirmed visits of high-ranking officials to the Republic of Armenia," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan told Lurer in response to a question whether the report was true.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was confirmed killed after the helicopter he was travelling in crashed in poor weather on Sunday. The bodies of Raisi, as well as the foreign minister and others who were aboard, were found on Monday morning, some hours after their helicopter crashed in Iran’s northwest region, state media reported.
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