Iranian news agencies report that during a visit to Esfahan petrochemical plant in Iran Armenian deputy minister of energy and natural resources Ara Simonyan said energy is the key direction in Armenian-Iranian relations and that cooperation in energy sector will create favorable conditions for expansion of bilateral contacts in other sectors as well.
Ara Simonayn was accompanied by deputy director of Iranian National Oil Products Company Mohammad Hasan Ahbarishad.
The two countries will also build hydraulic power plants on the rive Arax and a fuel pipeline from Iran to Armenia.