Tuesday, May 23 2017 00:24

ArmInfo. Forming bilateral and trilateral formats of cooperation with the participation of Iran and involving Turkmenistan will allow to increase the political role of Armenia in the region, such an  opinion was expressed today during  the  press conference by the Iranian scholar Vardan Voskanyan.

As an example, he brought  Armenia-Iran-Turkmenistan gas agreement. "From  this point of view, the reelection of Iran active President Hassan  Roukhani is a favorable fact for Armenia, as Tehran will continue  cooperation with Yerevan over the implementation of these projects,"  the expert said, adding that with the re-election of Roukhani in the  coming years, there will be no serious changes in Iran foreign  relations.

He stressed that the energy sphere is the locomotive of the relations  between Armenia and Iran, and it is not by chance that the third  high-voltage power transmission line is being built. At the same  time, the expert stressed the importance of establishing new  communication routes. "Iran considers Armenia as an important road  zone, and we should carry out the construction of one of the  components of this  North- South route as soon as possible, taking  advantage of the fact that the Iranian -Azerbaijani railway is not  being built due to the fact that the promised amount of money is not  allocated  by Azerbaijan and since the Azerbaijani bank, which  promised to allocate this sum, went bankrupt, this project hangs in  the air, "Voskanyan said.

For the Armenian side, he continued, additional opportunities of  agenda implementation have opened. "We should manage to use the  moment, undertaking steps for railroad construction connecting  Armenia and Iran," Vardan Voskanyan added. 

He also assured that the talks with such country as Iran in a  language of sanctions and threatens is already history. What is to  recent call of USA President Donald Trump to isolate Iran, Voskanyan  stressed: "USA faces the issue to strengthen its positions with Iran.  Surely, Tehran has problems with Saudi Arabia, with some Arabian  countries, but these states have no chance to isolate Iran. It is not  beneficial for them  in a political sense and dangerous from military  point of view."