YEREVAN. Feb 7 (Interfax) - Armenia does not take seriously a statement by an Iranian presidential candidate, Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi, that Armenia is a former Iranian territory.
"Certainly, we cannot take this statement seriously. We hope the election campaign will make him more serious," a source from the Armenian Foreign Ministry told Interfax on Thursday.
Kharrazi said earlier in speaking to voters that, if he is elected president, he would seek Azerbaijan's, Armenia's and Tajikistan's unification with Iran as its former breakaway territories.