During the September 13 attack on Armenia, Azerbaijan also bombarded the high-voltage power lines stretching to Iran, and for 12 hours did not allow experts to approach and repair them, and due to high volumes of power the Armenian nuclear power plant was forced to reduce power, the Armenian Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan told foreign ambassadors in Vardenis.
Sanosyan briefed the ambassadors that Azerbaijan widely targeted various civilian infrastructures, schools, kindergartens, administrative buildings, private houses, industrial facilities, power lines, bridges, roads, gas pipelines.
“In order to be clear on the deliberate Azeri attacks and bombardments of our infrastructures during those days I’d like to present the following incident, when the high-voltage electricity lines from Armenia to Iran were shelled. Armenia is exporting rather large volumes of electric energy to Iran. Initially one may think that a power line was shelled unintentionally, but, for 12 hours our experts were not allowed to approach the power lines and repair them, every time our expert...
