“We urge to prioritize dialogue. Further confrontation must be avoided,” the Armenian ministry said in an April 14 post on X (formerly Twitter).
Late on Saturday Iran carried out a large-scale drone and missile attack against Israel in retaliation for an Israeli strike against its consulate in Damascus, Syria, earlier this month, which killed senior commanders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Israel said that the vast majority of the nearly 300 drones and missiles launched by Iran were intercepted by its forces and allies, with “very little damage” caused.
Tehran, on the contrary, described its attack as a success, claiming that it struck most of the military targets it had intended. Iran added that it was not going to continue the operation, while Israel vowed to retaliate.
According to a White House official, the U.S. president warned the Israeli prime minister that Washington would not participate in a counterstrike against Iran if Israel decided to retaliate. A number of countries, including France, Russia, China, Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and others, have called for restraint.
Some flights from Yerevan to Tehran and back operated by commercial airlines were canceled in the wake of Iran’s strike on April 14.
Earlier Armenia also voiced its “deep concern” over the April 1 attack against Iran’s consulate in Syria. “The inviolability of diplomatic representations is a must and should not be questioned under any pretext. We express our sincere sympathy to victims and wounded,” Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said in an X post on April 2.