Iran Temporarily Stops Flights To Azerbaijan And Armenia

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JAKARTA - Iran has temporarily suspended flights to neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia, according to local media reports.

"Based on the decision of the Iranian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), flights were suspended "for a short time", CAA chief Mohammad Mohammadi Bakhsh told Iran Labor News (ILNA) reported by ANTARA from Anadolu, Wednesday, September 20.

"Aeronautics will continue if the situation returns to normal," he said.

On Tuesday after the provocation of the Armenian troops in Karabakh, Azerbaijan said it had launched a "counterterrorism" action in the region to maintain a 2020 trilateral peace agreement with Russia and Armenia.

On Thursday the ceasefire was announced, but after Iran said it had suspended flights.

Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been heating up since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a region recognized by the world as part of Azerbaijan and seven other adjacent territories.

In the fall of 2020 Azerbaijan freed a number of cities, villages, and settlements from the inhabitants of Armenia in 44 days of clashes.

The war ended in November thanks to a ceasefire brokered by Russia.

However, tensions between the two countries are still ongoing despite ongoing talks aimed at a peace agreement.