YEREVAN. - The visit of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was fruitful in terms of quality. 

Chair of the Iranian Studies at the Yerevan State University (YSU), Vardan Voskanyan, told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am.

''The expectations from Rouhani's visit to Armenia were satisfied. It should be stressed that the Armenian President greeted President Rouhani exactly at the airport, which is indicative of the highest level of relations between the two states, this worrying some of our ''friends'' in the region. This first of all concerns the Azerbaijani Republic, whose media outlets—almost during the entire day of the President's visit—worked in the context of the Armenian-Iranian relations and published not only anti-Armenian materials, but also those with anti-Armenian content, this also indicating that the Armenian-Iranian relations are positively progressing,'' the expert said.

According to him, the cooperation between Armenia and Iran is at a very high level in terms of politics, the economic treaties signed in the framework of this visit tending to fill in the gap of economic relations. In Voskanyan's words, this will give Armenia an advantage in the region.

''By developing our relations with Iran, we first of all solve economic issues, but the solution of those issues will lead to a key achievements, namely overcoming the Azerbaijani-Turkish blockade. If Azerbaijan and Turkey aim to keep us out of the regional programs, conducting policy aimed at the isolation of Armenia with apparent hostile approaches, we can actually leaving these countries out of the play through implementing our plans of turning the Persian Gulf-Black Sea axis into reality,'' he said.

In Voskanyan's words, against the backdrop of the Armenian-Iranian railway project, Azerbaijan is trying to prepare propaganda traps, presenting the Iranian-Azerbaijani railroad cooperation as an almost established fact, this not correspond to reality. 

''There is a propaganda balloon among us, which is fed by Azerbaijan on that Iran and Azerbaijan will soon join by railroads. The Iranian side has not yet completed Qazvin-Rasht section of that large project in Iran, whereas in the area from Rasht to Astara—which is the border point with Azerbaijan—not even a step has been made towards constructing a railroad. Moreover, there is an issue related to funding that railway. In this context, the Iranian side no longer believes the promises of the Azerbaijani side to fund the program at least partially,'' Voskanyan noted.

The expert also noted that unlike the aforementioned project, the Armenian-Iranian railway project is a precisely outlined one, but it requires funding.

''The Armenian-Iranian railroad project is a precisely formulated proposal: the ways of its implementation have been outlined. It is possible to carry out everything from technical standpoint but the implementation of the project is postponed merely because of financial matters,'' he said.