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Starting from 2014, including 2017 as well, the visits from Iran to Armenia have dynamically increased. In 2014 116.324 Iranians visited Yerevan, in 2015 – 144.160, 2016 – 188.851, 2017 – 220.147
It was, however, the 2 June departure of the six main political leaders – Rupen Zartarian, Nazareth Daghavarian, Karekin Khajag, Aknuni (K. Malumian), Harutiun Jangulian, and Sarkis Minassian – that marked the beginning of the liquidation of the Istanbul Armenian elite