The Ministry of Defense of Armenia refused to comment on the issue of buying Iranian drones.
at the Sputnik Armenia request, did Yerevan submit a request for the purchase of Iranian UAVs, whether there is such an opportunity, whether there are any obstacles to the purchase of drones and other weapons in IRI. The military department said: “You have refused to provide information Based on 1 part 1 of paragraph 8 “On Freedom of Information”, as well as the requirements of 19 p. List established by the Decree of the Armenian Government on March 19 N173 of 1998 “.
The publication has clarified that the first case is about refusing to provide information “containing state, official, banking, commercial secret”, and in the second case a list of secret data was established. Clause 19 concerns information about “state defense orders, weapons, military equipment, supply volumes, volumes (tasks) of production capacities”.
Recall that a few days ago, the chief military adviser to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Hamenie, General Yahya Safavi, claimed that “about 22 countries” submitted official applications for the purchase of Iranian military drones: “Among the Candidate countries for the purchase of Iranian drones – Armenia, Tajikistan, Tajikistan, Tajikistan Serbia, Algeria, Venezuela and a number of other countries “