An American brocade peace announcement between Armenia and Azerbaijan is combined with mixed reactions in Iran. Tehran has welcomed peace between the two pre-of-sove countries, but therefore protested to increase the American influence in its backyard.
Both Armenia and Azerbaijan are located on the north -western border of Iran in South Cocks. Following the decades of regional disputes, the two countries signed a peace announcement at the White House on 9 August.
The agreement provides for the construction of a transit corridor between the boycott of Azerbaijan and his fingernails, which passes through a 32 km (20-mile) strip of the Armenian region.
The corridor, which allows American development and rights to use, is to be named “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” after the current US President, Donald Trump.
For Iran, a major energy power, it would be a serious blow. Therefore, Tehran maintains close ties for Armenia and is sensitive to tricks that can limit its low impact in the region.
Iran promises to block the corridor
On 9 August, supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s advisor Ali Akbar Velayati said, “Iran will not allow the construction of this corridor,” the American presence in the South Caucasus is a threat to Iranian interests.
However, Iranian President Masaud Pesesian quickly opposed the assessment a day later.
Shanti Yojana “so takes into account Iran’s views,” she said on Monday during a phone call with Armay Minister Nicole Pashinian, which was reported in the Armenian media. The planned route will not cut access to Armenia’s Armenia, Peseshkian insisted.
Why is the field strategically important?
The corridor is much higher than a transit project, a former Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Afsar Solimani.
“The main problem is the strategic competition between Russia and the West,” he told DW.
Solemani said that the West, and America specificly, are trying to reduce the Russian effect in the Cocus of the South, and take advantage of a power vacuum brought by Russia that are trapped in Ukraine.
Shirin Hunter told Irani News Talnak for Iran expert at the University of Georgetown in the US that she does not consider her former dominance “win” in the region, even though it is ready to remain an important actor.
“It is comprehensible that Russia and America are now demanding a comprehensive agreement on Ukraine and Caucasus,” he said.
According to Hunter, the construction of pipelines and trade routes bypassing Iran is part of the American strategy, defeating the 1990s.
“Trump has only intensified the process and now acquired to sign the agreement,” Shirin said, which was on the Iranian diplomat before the 1979 Islamist revolution.
He said that the new “Trump route” would serve as an important reinforcement of Iran’s geophysical isolating.
Iran hit many crises at a time
Earlier this year, military exchanges with Israel, loss of proxy militia in the Middle East, with the growing disastrous faction among the population with political suppression and economic status, have all weakened the status of Iran’s leadership.
While Iran still has a good relationship with Christian-influence Armenia, its relationship with Muslim-Bahul Azerbaijan is Tensi.
“Tehran tried to stop Israel’s influence in Azerbaijan by establishing a close relationship with Armenia,” said Iran expert from the University of Germany, a leapzig at the University of Germany.
Talebi said, “Results, however, is that Azerbaijan is now connected to Israel even more closely.” Azerbaijan was separated from Iran after a Russian-Persian war in 1828 and had anxious to the Russian Empire.
The two Iranian provinces with the north -western border still tolerate the name of West and Eastern Azerbaijan.
The number of Iranian citizens with Azerbaijony roots is estimated to be around 18 million, which exceeds the population of Azerbaijan, is 10.2 million.
So the separatist groups in Tehran have an honor for separation from Iran and making “South Azerbaijan”.
In Baku, there are nationalist movements that talk of “Greater Azerbaijan”, which will include Iranian Azerbaijanis.
According to a leapzig-based expert Talebi, Iranian President Peazian is trying to accommodate Iran’s Regoonal Policy, including the Iraqi region of Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Pakistan and Turkey. सरकार का लक्ष्य ईरान के बढ़ते अलगाव के संदर्भ में एक नए संघर्ष से बचना है।
The President Hemelf is half the Kurdish and half Azerbaijan. He met Azerbaijan President Ilhm Aliyev in Baku in April, and spoke to Azerbaijan in front of the cameras.
With both global and regional alliances shifting, Iran should reconsider its entire foreign policy and adapt to the changed realities to Eatlas, which would include a acceptance of American regional appearance and resolve issues with Washington, said expert Shirin Hunter.
Additional Reporting: Morad Rahmati
This article has been translated from German
