Iran uncovers Turkey’s double game to harm it geopolitically and strategically, now Tehran…, Erdogan…

New Delhi: While Iran is embroiled in a war with Israel, Turkey was playing new tricks behind its back. But Tehran turned the tables in time. Ali Akbar Velayati, a key advisor to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, has revealed that Iran has successfully stopped Azerbaijan and Turkey’s ‘Zangezur Corridor’ plan.

This is the same corridor that would have connected Azerbaijan to Turkey via Armenia’s Syunik province and cut off Iran’s strategic access. Velayati called this plan a geopolitical conspiracy under the guise of a transport project. According to him, this plan was not only an attempt to cut off Iran from Europe but was also part of the Western effort to surround Russia from the southern front.

Velayati said Tehran understood this trick in time and blocked the project through active diplomatic efforts. He also targeted the USA without naming it and claimed that even former President Joe Biden was aware of the preparation of this corridor, although there is no public record of this.

Article 9 of the agreement brokered by Russia after the Nagorno-Karabakh war talked about opening transport routes. Azerbaijan saw it as the Zangezur corridor, a direct route from Nakhchivan to the Azerbaijani mainland. But Armenia says that this is only the restoration of traditional routes, and its sovereignty will remain on all routes.

Turkey’s dream shattered

Turkey was very excited about this corridor. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in 2023 that if Armenia obstructs, alternative routes will be explored through Iran. Earlier, the two countries also signed the Shusha Declaration in 2021, in which this corridor was described as a strategic hub.

Now, Iran has further strengthened its relations with Armenia and the construction of the third high-voltage transmission line between the two countries is 80% complete.

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