Iran’s recent military deployment on its border with Azerbaijan and Ankara-Baku joint military drills indicate a regional competition between Tehran and the two Turkish-majority states
Azerbaijan also disrupted Tehran’s transportation in the Karabakh region, which is a crucial supply route connecting Iran with West Asia, imposing customs on it. That further sparked Iran’s anger as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan conducted trilateral military drills across Caucasia last month.
“It could be indeed that Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s current military drills in Nakhchivan are ratcheting up that tension with Tehran,” says Matthew Bryza, the former US ambassador to Azerbaijan and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. But primarily defining borders regarding the Karabakh region is also important to make trade routes available between Baku and Yerevan and also Turkey and Armenia, ensuring economic growth and investment across the region, according to the former diplomat. connecting Azerbaijan's main territory with Turkey through Armenia and the Nakhchivan province, where the current joint drills of Ankara and Baku are also being conducted.
That route is not operational yet. “These current military drills may be intended as a way to use military activity as a diplomatic tool with Armenia as well,” Bryza views, referring to Turkey-Azerbaijan efforts to make the route operational. But he is also not sure for certain on the ultimate aims of the drills.
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