Iran and Russia stand to lose from US deal with Azerbaijan and Armenia | Iran
Iran, Donald Trump, Azerbaijan and Armenia by a statement between Azerbaijani and Azerbaijani to be carved on Saturday, expressed his concerns about external interventions. The two countries approached the end of 35 years of hostility by signing a peace agreement in Washington and accepting a US special consortium that seized a strategic corridor on the Iranian border.
The corridor passing through Southern Armenia will associate Azerbaijan with the long -term demand for Baku with Explave Nakhchivan. The US will operate the corridor under the Armenian sovereignty in a 99 -year -old land rental and will change the balance of power in the region. Some Iranian commentators claimed that the agreement meant “Iran’s geopolitical drowning in the region”.
The control of the corridor along the border between Armenia and Northern Iran was the largest block of the peace agreement between the two countries.
The agreement is also a coup of Russia’s declining influence in the region, as Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan directs the Christian majority country to the West and eventually to the EU. Russia, which is still a military base in Armenia, seems to be unable to resist Trump initiative because of its concern with Ukraine.
In a statement on Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said: “The establishment of communication networks will serve the security and economic development of the countries of the region within the framework of mutual interests and without foreign intervention, by respecting the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries in the region.”
Abbas Mousavi, the former Ambassador of Baku of Baku, described Trump’s direct participation in the relationship between Azerbaijan and Armenia as “interesting, aggressive and dangerous ..
However, there is little that Iran can do to prevent an agreement that the US, Armenia and Azerbaijan sees, as in their mutual interests.
Since the end of the 1980s, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been conflicting that Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous Azerbaijan region filled mostly by ethnic Armenians, left Azerbaijan with the support of Armenia. Azerbaijan, which was largely governed by an authoritarian dictatorship, forced the full control of the region in 2023 and encouraged almost all of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians to escape to Armenia.
In the newest part of the agreement, the Consortium of the Consortium, which is still formless, will take control of a 20-mile-long transit corridor connecting Azerbaijan out of Nakhchivan. It will be called the Tr Trump Route for International Peace and Welfare ..
The proposal, which was first discussed during the Biden administration, raises the possibility of a US presence on the Iranian border. Tehran worries that such a development can reduce access to the Black Sea and Europe through Georgia.
Another opening of the Turkish border would integrate Armenia into the Middle -Corridor Project, an economic trade route that jumps Russia and Iran between Europe and China. In this project, Armenian leaders have long been economic benefits for their countries surrounded by land.
The White House said that the new transportation corridor would “respect the sovereignty, regional integrity and the people of Armenia without a barrier connection between the two countries”. Route is invoiced to include roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines and fiber optic lines. A US commercial presence reduces incentives for both sides to resort to military solutions.
As part of the Washington Agreement, both sides agreed to end other border disputes, but Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, emphasized that the final agreement required the Armenian Constitution to eliminate the “unquestionable regional claims karşı against Azerbaijan and was not seen as not to do us. Armenia is expected to organize a referendum on the Constitution in 2027, but if it emphasizes the demand for Aliyev, more hostility will grow in Armenia.
However, Aliyev and his ally Türkiye are gaining greatly from the agreement, so he may not look for obstacles. As part of the agreement, for example, restrictions on military cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States may be abolished. Aliyev said: ık We have previously signed the peace agreement that has been negotiated for a long time and means that it should not doubt that any of the parties will take back in the capital of 1 No Superpower, in the world of the world, and in the presence of the great president of the USA. ”
He also asked Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
