Thursday, March 14 2019 18:05

ArmInfo.Relations between Armenia and Iran are nothing less than a "meeting place" for Christianity and Islam. And the results of the visit of the Prime Minister of Armenia  Nikol Pashinyan to the Islamic Republic have once again confirmed  this. Such an opinion was expressed by ArmInfo, advisor to the first  president of Armenia on issues of national security, member of the  "Karabakh" committee, analyst Ashot Manucharyan.

On February 27-28, Nikol Pashinyan made his first official visit as  the Prime Minister of Armenia to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The  two-day agenda of the prime minister turned out to be rather intense  - Pashinyan met with the highest political and spiritual leadership  of the country. He held talks with President of the Islamic Republic  of Iran Hassan Rouhani and Chairman of the Mejlis Ali Larijani. The  Armenian Prime Minister was received by Supreme Leader of the Islamic  Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. In addition to Tehran,  Pashinyan visited Isfahan, where he met with the governor and the  local Armenian community."Of course, the visit of the Armenian Prime  Minister to Iran is very important from the point of view of  deepening political and trade-economic relations.

 He has an important geopolitical content and, accordingly,  prospects. However, I still tend to view it in a wider,  global-civilizational context. Iran Pashinyan once again recorded the  fact of civilizational proximity between this neighboring country and  Armenia, "he stressed.In this light, Manucharyan regards Pashinyan's  visit to Iran as a step towards the continuation and deepening of a  thousand-year-old dialogue between two civilizations and two  religions. According to his estimates, in conditions when the centers  of power concentrated in the USA and Israel are trying to draw  another dividing line in the south of the region, such an initiative  of Yerevan and Tehran is very important.

Thus, the analyst assesses the visit of the Armenian Prime Minister  to Iran as a component of a common policy towards the exit of the  rest of the countries of the Greater Middle East from regional chaos.   According to his view of the situation, Armenia and Iran together are  trying to find answers to the challenges and problems of a vast  region.