Iran threatened on Saturday to block a corridor planned in the Caucasus based on a regional agreement sponsored by the President of the United States Donald Trump, according to reports from the Iranian media, raising a new question on a peace level greeted as a strategically important change.
An important Azerbaijano diplomat said that the plan, announced by Trump on Friday, was only one step for a final peace agreement between his country and Armenia, who reiterated his support on the plan.
Trump’s proposal of Trump for peace and international prosperity (Tripp) would cross southern Armenia, giving Azerbaijan a route directed towards his enclave of Nakhchchiivan and, in turn, in Türkiye.
The United States would have exclusive rights to develop the corridor, which, according to the White House, would facilitate greater exports of energy and other resources.
It was not immediately clear since Iran on the border with the area would have blocked him, but the declaration of Akbar Velato Akbar, the leader of the Iranian supreme leader, raised questions about his security.
He said that the military exercises performed in northwestern Iran have shown the readiness and determination of the Islamic Republic to avoid any geopolitical change.
“This corridor will not become a passage of ownership of Trump, but a cemetery for Trump’s mercenaries,” said Velayati.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran has previously greeted the agreement “as an important step towards regional peace”, but warned against any foreign intervention close to its borders that could “undermine the safety of the region and lasting stability”.
Analysts and experts claim that Iran, under the growing pressure of the United States on its nuclear program and the consequences of a 12 -day war with Israel in June, has no military power to block the corridor.
Moscow says that West has to leave
Trump received the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House on Friday and attended the signing of a joint declaration to establish a limit to the conflict of decades.
Russia, the traditional and ally of Armenian mediator in the strategically important region of the southern Caucasus, which is crossed by pipelines and pipelines, has not been included, although its border guards are positioned on the Armenian border and Iran.
Although Moscow claimed to have supported the summit, he proposed “the implementation of solutions developed by the countries of the region with the support of their immediate neighbors: Russia, Iran and Turkey” to avoid what he called “sad experience” of western mediation efforts in the Middle East.
Turkey, a member of NATO, an ally near Azerbaijan, greeted the agreement.
Baku and Yerevan have been in conflict since the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region of Azerbaijan most inhabited by ethnic Armenians, separated from Azerbaijan with the support of Armenia. Azerbaijan resumed total control of the region by 2023, bringing almost all 100,000 ethnic Armenians from the territory to escape to Armenia.
Source: Terra
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