[4] Saghatelyan was the lead coordinator of the Homeland Salvation Movement, which led protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after the end of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

[5] Ishkhan Saghatelyan was born on May 6, 1982, in the village of Geghamavan in the former Sevan region of the Armenian SSR (now located in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia).

[4] Following the defeat of the Armenian side in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Saghatelyan became one of the main leaders of the 2020–2021 Armenian protests and the lead coordinator of the Homeland Salvation Movement, the coalition of opposition parties calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's resignation and proposing Vazgen Manukyan as an interim prime minister.

[7][8] Although the Homeland Salvation Movement was opposed to participating in elections held under Prime Minister Pashinyan, on May 6, 2021, Saghatelyan announced that the ARF had formed an electoral alliance with the newly created Reborn Armenia party and the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, with the intention of participating in the snap parliamentary election in June 2021.

[10] He was put forward as the parliamentary opposition's candidate for deputy speaker of parliament and was elected on August 6, 2021, after two failed attempts.