A senior Iranian official says the country would oppose the establishment of a US-controlled transportation and energy corridor in Armenia, which he says would create serious risks to regional stability.
Ali Akbar Velayati, who serves as a senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that Iran would block the establishment of the so-called Zangezur corridor, which seeks to connect Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan through the Armenian territory.
The security in Southern Caucasus is at stake with the implementation of this plot … and Iran has emphasized that with or without Russia it would move to (preserve) stability in Southern Caucasus, Velayati told the Tasnim news agency.
He said that Iran believes that Russia is strategically opposed to the plan for establishing a US-controlled corridor in Armenia.
Under a deal signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Washington on Friday, Armenia granted exclusive rights to the USA to develop a corridor in its southern Syunik province, which borders Iran, to connect Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan.
Iran has for long opposed the idea, saying it would change the geopolitical order of the Southern Caucasus and would restrict Iran’s ability to use transport networks in the region.
Velayati said US President Donald Trump’s touting of the transport corridor as a way of establishing peace in the region is just meaningless.
The official, who served as Iran’s foreign minister from 1981 to 1997, said that the project would lead to the disintegration of Armenia and is opposed by the people in the country.
He said the corridor would also lead to the increased presence of the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the region.
We will not allow NATO to approach Iran’s northern borders.
PressTV / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
This is their aim. Their holocaust cabinet of ZioNazis approved to take over Gaza and that means even ethically cleansing Gazans. Orange-covid-assassin-Zionist-Islamophobic is on board this plot.
Misbehaving former limbs of Iran, need to come home. Reassemble the region in the Way of Allah. Its not for foreigners to make designs with. They cannot become platforms for Zionism Americans Antichrist World Order.
Badly behaved stooge, Iran must show him how his been tricked, before he falls on own sword.
Not only Azerbaijan and Armenia are behaving as stooge, take the example of other parts of Iranian land separated from motherland Iran also behaving as stooge, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Afghanistan etc.
They all said they want to be independent but in reality they are not independent and never honored their independence, soon after separation they were in bed with the enemy of Iran.
Just look at two Korea’s they want to unite again but south Korea is a stooge and hosting Americans which is always the case in conflict with North Korea.