Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani voiced Tehran's readiness to help resolve the territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, SIA reports citing Fars news agency.
The Iranian parliament speaker made the remarks in a meeting with the Head of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ramiz Mehdiyev here in Tehran on Monday.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran stresses its readiness to contribute to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis," Larijani said.
The Iranian parliament speaker urged Baku and Yerevan to peacefully settle their dispute and remove tensions in the region.
Mehdiyev, for his part, welcomed Iran's efforts to help the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Mehdiyev, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Tehran on Monday to discuss the bilateral and regional developments.
Despite facing strong international pressure, the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders have failed to agree on the basic principles of ending the Karabakh conflict put forward by Russia, the United States, and France in 2011.
Armenia and Azerbaijan remain officially at war over Karabakh and the dispute is a major source of tension in the South Caucasus region wedged between Iran, Russia and Turkey.
No country - not even Armenia - officially recognizes Karabakh as an independent state.
The rebel region has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since it broke free of Baku's control after a fierce war in the early 1990s that killed 30,000 people.
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