Number of Iranian tourists to Armenia declines by 43%

The number of Iranian tourists to Armenia has declined by 43%, according to Ayub Najari, Head of the Transport Department of Eastern Atrpatakan province in Iran , IRNA news agency reported.

Najari said 7,151 people crossed the Iranian-Armenian border on March 15-24, which is a 43% decline as compared with the same period of last year.

34, 723 people crossed the Iranian-Azerbaijani border in the indicated period. Only 1,300 of them were Iranian citizens.