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US Military Instructors to Train Armenian Servicemen

Armenian law enforcement officers stand outside a police station during an incident that the country's government said was an attempt to seize the building in Yerevan on March 24, 2024. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)
Armenian law enforcement officers stand outside a police station during an incident that the country's government said was an attempt to seize the building in Yerevan on March 24, 2024. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)
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US Military Instructors to Train Armenian Servicemen

Armenian law enforcement officers stand outside a police station during an incident that the country's government said was an attempt to seize the building in Yerevan on March 24, 2024. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)
Armenian law enforcement officers stand outside a police station during an incident that the country's government said was an attempt to seize the building in Yerevan on March 24, 2024. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)

United States military instructors will train Armenian military servicemen on April 1-5, Armenia's defense ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in February that Armenia can no longer rely on Russia as its main defense and military partner because Moscow has repeatedly let it down so Yerevan must think about forging closer ties with the United States and France,

Armenia, a former Soviet republic bordered by Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey, has long relied on Russia as a big power ally.

Pashinyan said Armenia should think about what security ties it should build with the United States, France, India and Georgia.

He questioned whether Armenia should remain a member of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and said Armenia needed a new national security strategy and would strengthen its army.

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Grossi Wants to Meet with Iran’s Pezeshkian ‘at Earliest Convenience’

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi speaks to the media at the Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, US, March 15, 2023. (Reuters)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi speaks to the media at the Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, US, March 15, 2023. (Reuters)
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Grossi Wants to Meet with Iran’s Pezeshkian ‘at Earliest Convenience’

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi speaks to the media at the Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, US, March 15, 2023. (Reuters)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi speaks to the media at the Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, US, March 15, 2023. (Reuters)

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi announced he intends to visit Tehran through a letter he addressed to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Iranian Mehr Agency reported that Grossi sent a congratulatory message to the Iranian president-elect, which stated: “I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you on your election win as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

“Cooperation between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at the focal attention of the international circles for many years. I am confident that, together, we will be able to make decisive progress on this crucial matter.”

“To that effect, I wish to express my readiness to travel to Iran to meet with you at the earliest convenience,” Iran’s Mehr news agency quoted Grossi as saying.

The meeting – should it take place - will be the first for Pezeshkian, who had pledged during his election campaign to be open to the West to resolve outstanding issues through dialogue.

Last week, American and Israeli officials told the Axios news site that Washington sent a secret warning to Tehran last month regarding its fears of Iranian research and development activities that might be used to produce nuclear weapons.

In May, Grossi expressed his dissatisfaction with the course of the talks he held over two days in Iran in an effort to resolve outstanding matters.

Since the death of the former Iranian president, Ibrahim Raisi, the IAEA chief refrained from raising the Iranian nuclear file, while European sources said that Tehran had asked to “freeze discussions” until the internal situation was arranged and a new president was elected.