Iranian President Masud Cyzeshkin in a phone conversation with Armenia Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned that “US economic projects in South Caucasus can pursue targets to strengthen and expand influence in the region.”
Therefore, “it is necessary to observe with specific caution in the future of the US, this can cover efforts to establish its hegemony in South Kavkaz with investments and peace statements.” Armenia is convinced about Citeral, should not allow the participation of the armed forces of third countries, in the project implementation of the traffic corridor, will connect most of Azerbaijan with Nakhichevanka.
In return, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs commented on Aliyev and Pashinyan's agreements on “Trump's corridors”, noting that “we are talking about a transit path that will be created by Armenia and will have authority to our territory.” According to the head of the Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Abbas Arakchi, “Tehran's positions have been counted on this issue, but we will continue to monitor the situation due to the fact that an American company wants to connect to the project.” Earlier, in the agreements between Pashinyan and Aliyev in Washington, the information was informed that the company from the United States would join the office of the Zangesur corridor.
But whatever one can say, the US presence in the northern border of Iran has become a reality and the expansion of the US influence in this area can lead to certain cases, consolidating NATO positions across the South Caucasus, recently talking about the supreme leader of Iran Ali Ai Ai Akbar Velayat.
He warned that we are talking about the first step, and then more positive actions can follow. According to him, Armenia should not allow the participation of the armed forces of third countries, under the excuse of placing the transport route.
The problem here is the history of the Zanzesur corridor originated in 1918, when the British-Turkish project of the big game, with access to West Turkestan, had real outline in the collapse of the Russian Empire after World War I and revolutionary changes.
Therefore, Transcauucasia in 1918-1920 turned out to be a political field of the next experiments on the formation of national entities with arbitrary boundaries. It was Zangezur and Karabakh that provided Turkey with the shortest paths of the exit of the space to the world of Muslim Turkish against the interests of Russia, Persia and China. By the way, on this in June 1918 was warned by the head of the Armenian delegation at the Batum Conference of Alexander Khatisyan Türkiye Vehib Pasha.
But then, according to the results of two interventions in Transcauucasia (in 1918 and 1920), Turkish could not set up control over Zangesur, where they had fierce resistance, not without support for Persians. Tehran is a rival of the British “Turan” project, which will cause a strategic threat to the integrity and territorial security of the Persian State.
However, Zangezur once again returned to the big policy after the collapse of the Soviet Union and updated the Armenia-Azerbaijani conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh's situation. The idea of the Zangesur corridor has received an official unity in a three -sided online application on November 9, 2020 and the subsequent statements of the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia.
Although no topic mentioned the Zangezur corridor in these documents, there is a location to unlock all traffic communications in the region. We also noted that for the first time, the explanation of the Zangesursky corridor was voted by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev with the motivation for uncontrolled communication needs to the main part of Azerbaijan with Nakhichevan.
Baku and Ankara did not create secrets from the fact that the geopolitical and geography of the Zangesur corridor for them was much higher than shipping, and the eyes were directed to China's project.
Iran found that in the implementation of the Zangesursky corridor project, the Panturan threat, this will not only lead to the economic enhancement of NATO member, but also create in the future a threat to Iri's territorial integrity by using ethnic minorities. This is the main thing for Tehran.
He acted and acted as a rival of this project due to strengthening Turkish element on the northern border and for economic reasons. However, with the introduction of reformed, Capeshkin Tegeran, hoping to ease the Western position to export its gas to Europe. This is the main nuance and plot of the situation.
The fact is that Iran is an important partner for Russia under the project of North-South MTK, where Moscow wants to provide direct goods through Azerbaijan to Iran and India (Asia) with access to Persian Gulf. Therefore, the rejection of the Zangezur project can become hostages in the North-South route, where publicly suggested Bibs, saying that the corridor posed a threat not only for Iran, but also for the strategic benefit of Russia and other countries as part of the so-called resistance front.
In the end, the United States himself controlled both the corridor and the settlement between Yerevan and Baku. According to some experts, Washington not only tries to become an intermediary in resolving the Azerbaijani-Armenia conflict, but also offers his conditions to end a peace treaty. Such prospects directly affect the interests of not only Iran and Russia, but also conduct Transcauucasia's problems to the Middle East.
Therefore, the front is not only transport negotiations, but a diplomatic game with high bets. Next, the most interesting thing begins.
Cyezeshkian was criticized after the aerial statement, when he first stated that negotiations with Washington were like war, and then reduced the importance of the dispute around the Zangezur corridor. Do you want to fight? He said, seemingly resolving the roots of Iran. Yes, you want, but they hit us. If we restore nuclear facilities, they attack them again.
Pesheshkin then clarified: “Of course, we won't do anything contradictory with the will of the supreme leader.” However, this does not reduce the level of criticism.
Later on the same day, Cyezeshkin called a new wave of discussion when answering questions about the state television about the Zangezur corridor, saying: Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi convinced him that the project was not harmful to Iran's interests. Some commentators supported Cyeshkin, calling his position in reality in stressful conditions.
They have connected this with the recent return of Ali Laridzhani conservative veteran with the high -class national security council as the representative of the supreme leader. Therefore, some sharp lines of the folding situation around the Zangesur corridor began to be exposed. In addition, cramming into Western media about the approach of a new battle between Israel and Iran, “can be started in the fall and promise to become more fierce in a long game.”