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On April 10, lawyer Ara Zohrabyan informed that the criminal court of the first instance of general jurisdiction of the city of Yerevan (judge: Ani Danielyan) made a decision to satisfy the appeal of the defender of the Catholicos of All Armenians. Based on the court’s decision, the restraining order applied to the Catholicos of All Armenians is subject to cancellation.

Let’s remind that RA Investigative Committee (investigator Ara Avagyan) on 14.02.2026 made a decision and applied the prohibition of absence to the Catholicos of All Armenians as a preventive measure.
Due to that ban, as well as the refusal of permission to travel to Georgia by the investigator, the Catholicos of All Armenians could not participate in the holy ceremony of the funeral of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II.

Now, the judge of the Kentron seat, Ani Danielyan, has ordered the investigator to remove the restraining order against Vehapar.

Earlier, on April 1, it was lawyer Harut Aklunts informed that Judge Arman Hovhannisyan of the Yerevan General Jurisdiction Criminal Court, Avan and Nor Nork seat, satisfied his complaint against the actions of the investigator and the prosecutor, recognized the fact of the violation of the right of His Holiness Father Haykazun Archbishop Najarian and obliged the investigator to remove the restraining measure applied to Haykazun Srbazan, the ban on absence.

In general, according to the information of 168.am, 5 complaints were submitted against the reverends, three of which were rejected, and the complaints brought by two of them, the Reverend Hayrapet and the Reverend Haykazun, were satisfied, and first Judge Arman Hovhannisyan, then Judge Ani Danielyan recognized the violations of their rights and obliged to eliminate them.

Moreover, by the decision of Judge Arman Hovhannisyan, the issue of eliminating the violation of the right was examined and the legal idea that the preventive measure of absence cannot be recognized as a violation at that stage was overcome.

Arman Hovhannisyan’s decision was actually not problematic, because Ani Danielyan acted in exactly the same way, recognizing the fact of violation of Catholicos’ rights and obliging to eliminate them.

By the way, at the end of yesterday, it became known that the General Prosecutor’s Office is not backing down, and the RA General Prosecutor’s Office will file an appeal against the removal of the restraining order applied to Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II.

Probably, for Anna Vardapetyan, Vehapar’s non-traveling status is a matter of principle.

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The possible outcome of the war against neighboring Iran can change the entire geopolitical picture, as well as the balance of power in the Middle East and the Eurasian region as a whole. Until then, it is interesting to understand what deep, centuries-old religious and ideological roots the Iran-Israel conflict has in general, and why US President Donald Trump is trying to add religious shades to the US-Iran war. On topic 168 TVof Revue is the guest of the program Religious scholar Vardan Khachatryan։

The religious expert considers the image of the US president in the image of Christ, published on Trump’s social network page and later deleted, created by artificial intelligence, as blasphemy.

“If you say, ‘I play the role of a sanitarian,’ then what is that light in his hand?” Yes, brothers, we understand, 3 percent of the American society can believe that, well, 10 percent, but the rest can’t believe it all. It is clear that it is not Jesus, because if Jesus approached, laid his hand, that person must stand up, and that’s it. But the light in the other hand also indicates that it is attributed to divinity. We have seen Trump in the clothes of the Roman Pope, we have seen him in the clothes of a Viking, now he has become clean, there is no workman, we have to discuss the pictures created by this AI. After all, who needs them, what do we serve, that someone is the replacement of Jesus on the face of the Earth, can such a thing be? We consider Jesus as God. Can there be a substitute for God among mortals? Not that it cannot be, it is blasphemy. We have our faith, we have our confession, and we are waiting for the Savior who must come as God, not as a man, to declare: “I have come to save you all.” There is no such thing in the world. Christianity rejects this,” said the religious scholar in relation to the topic.

Vardan Khachatryan is skeptical about the two-week ceasefire announced between the United States and Iran and the negotiation process, predicting new military clashes between the conflicting parties.

“It is clear that the parties are preparing for a new conflict, that is, there will inevitably be a new conflict,” believes the religious expert.

Vardan Khachatryan also drew attention to the fact that Russia and China, which provide shadow support to Iran, are coming out of the shadows.

According to the interlocutor’s assessment, the United States did not succeed in the war against Iran and is now trying to organize a “crusade” against Iran.

According to Khachatryan, the American army does not consider this war a just war. Speaking about the religious roots of the Iranian-Israeli conflict and the US president’s attempts to add religious tones to the war against Iran, the religious expert noted that the current geopolitical developments and the threat of nuclear war show that the world is approaching Armageddon. Vardan Khachatryan sees a real danger of a nuclear conflict.

“At the moment, the only thing we can report is that the war is getting closer and closer because the sides are spending huge resources to bring weapons, new units, etc. closer to the war zone. You will not hide it. it is visible all over the world. Both the United States and Israel are increasingly leaning toward a new phase, meaning that this ceasefire is a time to prepare for the next phase. On the other hand, it appears that it is possible to form an alliance. I simply believe that if we proceed with conventional weapons, the exhaustion of the parties is such that the peace will last longer than expected. But if the situation becomes extreme, and there are great chances of it becoming extreme, then the war can happen much faster, immediately increasing the level of escalation to a nuclear conflict,” the religious expert added.

Vardan Khachatryan notices the exhaustion of the parties as a result of military operations that lasted for more than 40 days. He especially mentions the exhaustion of Israel, which cannot resist even the rockets of the opposition forces operating in Lebanon.

“It means that a war with conventional weapons is no longer in their favor, moreover, they will suffer if the war with conventional weapons continues, because the number of Iranian missiles will indisputably be enough for a much longer time. This war can also have such a course, but as they say, God forbid that all this, as an incendiary degree, rises to a nuclear conflict,” added Vardan Khachatryan.

To the question: when will be the second coming of Christ, and how close is the world to Armageddon, the religious scholar answered: “Everyone is waiting for the coming of Jesus. When will it come, when God will bend the sky and come down… Based on what we have talked about, it is probably very close, because in the conditions of huge nuclear arsenals, incomprehensible games are going on, which can turn into applied conflicts at any second. What do you want now? Everyone is armed, unspeakably armed…”

Let’s remind that the United States and Israel started military operations against Iran on February 28. On the morning of April 7, US President Donald Trump set another deadline for the Islamic Republic of Iran until 20:00 of the same day, threatening to strike Iran’s power grids and transportation infrastructure and “destroy Iran’s entire civilization” if Iran does not open the Strait of Hormuz and sign a deal with the United States. However, just an hour and a half before the end of the “deadline”, at 18:32 Washington time, Trump on his official page of the Truth Social social network announced, that, with the mediation of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, the United States agreed MONDAY TWO-WAY SHOOT CONFIRMATIONin response to their request to withdraw from the “destructive operations” planned for the night and on the condition that the Islamic Republic of Iran agrees to the complete, immediate and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump also noted that the American side accepted Iran’s 10-point proposal as a basis for negotiations.

On April 11, negotiations between the American and Iranian delegations led by US Vice President J.D. Vance and Iranian Majlis Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf took place in Islamabad with the mediation of Pakistan. The representatives of Washington and Tehran did not reach an agreement during the 21-hour negotiations. On April 14, “Francepress” agency, referring to its sources, reported that Pakistan is working towards holding the second round of negotiations. The previous day, Trump announced that the US armed forces started the blockade of Iranian ports on Monday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for its part, warned that if the United States resumes attacks, Iran will use capabilities “the enemy has no idea about” and will have “very limited ability” to counter them.

Full interview in the video.

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168 TV’s “Zara has a question” the guest of the program A member of the “Mother Armenia” faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders, a member of the pre-election list of the “Armenia” alliance It is Mesrop Manukyan.

The main theses voiced in the interview, in a nutshell:

• If Tigran Avinyan is sincere in his indignation and indignation and believes that there should be justice everywhere, then we should be the first to be indignant, spit at CP and them, the people will spit directly in their faces, because they and their “Republic” party have completely failed to manage Yerevan.

The citizen has never refused to pay, the citizen says: you do not carry out passenger transport. do you carry out cargo transportation? You promised decent transport, but instead, there are more than 100 gazelles in Yerevan, old buses donated by the Chinese government during the time of Taron Margaryan are still in operation in Yerevan, there is a shortage of around 500 vehicles in Yerevan, I am saying the minimum number, there are no more than 600 bus stops in Yerevan, there are pits and ditches in Yerevan.

In this case, the citizen asks the first question, he says: “Brother, did you remove the shadow that entered my pocket, are you able to calculate the cost of a passenger transportation or not?” There were no 2 officials in the city government and the entire CP that could say the same number of cost. everyone fell asleep, saying a price.

I am more inclined that they are being robbed than that they are not being recruited.

• First we note that we are dealing with a group of dilettantes, none of them are in place, just not in place.

If, God forbid, these things happen again, the situation in Yerevan will get worse and worse, the state of transport will be even more shameful.. In the first 2 years, no buses are planned to be bought in the medium-term expenditure plan, none, 0. That during the meetings they do something stupid, that we planned to take a bus, they lie. We have approved the budget for buying a bus, but no money has been allocated.

• The drivers themselves are treated as slaves. Now that is not enough, drivers are being pushed to fight. There is another problem here. if the driver starts to get angry… how will the poor drivers start driving the bus with that condition?

The man enters and says: there is no place to stand, neither you, nor Avinyan, nor CP. says the last words. Are they inciting the driver to become a criminal, endangering the lives of our citizens?

6 billion drams have been destroyed. there is no one responsible for this, and in a normal state they would have called and said: come and answer for this.

• 4.9 billion drams were spent on greening, creation of green zones and others. 13 million dollars. These people planted 5000 trees. I say, where is the other part of the money, he says, we planted 300,000 flowers, I say, where are the flowers, he says, winter has come, there is none, he says, I don’t know, they planted 40-50,000 bushes… let that bush grow on your head, you can’t, again, finally.

• It’s not that the sand and salt destroyed the asphalt (they can’t understand that either: I want to take a handful of sand and salt to the next meeting of the Council of Elders, fill it, see if they will disintegrate, we’ll get away) you understand… the sand and salt you pour, when the snow comes, it melts, it becomes water, it fills under the asphalt from those seams and holes, then the minus occurs, it swells, it cracks. the asphalt.

They express such stupid thoughts, they say it was the asphalt built by the previous ones, that is, the asphalt built 8 years ago lasted 8 years, 8 years…  Taron Margaryan, thank your ancestors a thousand times, you made such asphalt, it lasted for 8 years։

It has already been destroyed, it is not our fault. Were you an asphalt worker, were you selling a brand of asphalt to the people?. There is no quality control.

• In general, the system created by Nikol Pashinyan is already rotten, rotten from the inside, and since their money has increased a little, there is a race to see who will have more money, who will wear better clothes, who, I don’t know, will drink better wine and similar things. A general, corrupt, patronage structure.
• The collective opposition has work to do. He has work to do, every man must do his work in his trench.

Does the opposition have the opportunity to expel them? yes, it has. Will it be possible? We have to work. If we do not work, we are all to blame.

E:I see people are disgusted by these. I see that the power is held by the Turk.

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