Russia praises Armenia and Azerbaijan for providing "significant assistance" in Iran evacuations

A senior Russian official has lauded Armenia and Azerbaijan for their “significant assistance” in facilitating the evacuation of Russian nationals from Iran amid the U.S.-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic.

“Armenia and Azerbaijan have provided significant assistance in evacuating our compatriots from Iran. At the request of the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Baku allowed Russian citizens to use the Astara border crossing, which had been closed to individual crossings since 2020,” the Russian TASS news agency quoted the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Consular Department, Alexey Klimov, as saying.