"Contemporary Art of Iran" exhibition has opened in Yerevan. "The arrangement will become a new link between the two countries and will strengthen our ties," - Armenian parliament vice speaker Tigran Torosian stated at the exhibition opening ceremony. "We are not just neighbor countries, our cultural backgrounds are closely intertwined, and the peoples find new ways to unite. This exhibition is an evidence of that," - Torosian said. Iranian energy minister Habib Allah Betraf, who is in Armenia on a working visit, was among the exhibition honorary guests.