The Armenian Foreign Ministry announced the dispatch of humanitarian aid to Iran.

Armenia has sent a consignment of humanitarian aid, primarily medicine, to Iran, the Foreign Ministry announced.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on March 19, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced his readiness to provide humanitarian aid to Iran. He noted that Iran does not need to request humanitarian assistance. "We ourselves, if we see any humanitarian need that we can support, will take this step," Pashinyan assured.

Armenia has already sent humanitarian aid to Iran, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced today at a parliamentary session, responding to a question from Kristine Vardanyan, a member of parliament from the opposition Armenia bloc.

"I would like to inform you that Armenia has already sent humanitarian aid to the Islamic Republic of Iran. "These were mainly medicines. And it couldn't have been any other way," News.am quotes Mirzoyan as saying.

When asked by a member of parliament why the Armenian authorities hadn't reported this, Mirzoyan replied that they "didn't see any need," the newspaper writes.

As a reminder, since the start of hostilities in Iran on March 11, citizens of 46 countries have arrived in Armenia. In addition, with the assistance of the Armenian Embassy, ​​25 Armenian citizens returned to their homeland from Kuwait, whose airspace is closed amid the fighting in Iran.

The fighting in Iran threatens Armenia with an influx of refugees, the spread of the war to the Caucasus, and renders the Zangezur transport corridor project irrelevant, Yerevan analysts noted. On March 18, the Armenian Minister of Economy warned of inflation risks due to the situation in Iran. If military action ends quickly, the consequences are assessed as short-term, but prices have already risen for a number of goods in Armenia.

On February 28, Israel and the United States began strikes against Iran. Donald Trump announced the start of a large-scale military operation. In response, Iran began shelling Israel, American military facilities, and civilian targets in the Middle East, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Key Points on the Impact of the Military Conflict with Iran on the Caucasus."

The Caucasian Knot has compiled materials on the impact of military action in Iran on the Caucasus on the topic page "Iran: War Is Near". Also published on the "Caucasian Knot" chronicle of the war in Iran.