Eurasia expert Silvia Boltuc told Newsweek a new Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict could 'dramatically threaten' the International North-South Transport Corridor.
As two nations pushing to resist Western sanctions, Russia and Iran have increasingly invested in a workaround rail route running from Moscow to Mumbai. But a burgeoning crisis in the Caucasus region at the heart of the project is threatening to imperil this economic lifeline.Armenia and Azerbaijan, two rival post-Soviet republics on the crossroads of Europe and Asia, have been locked in a decades-long conflict over a 1,700-square-mile stretch of land known as Nagorno-Karabakh.
In fact, Vali Kaleji, a Tehran-based expert in Caucasian, Central Asia and regional studies, said that if the 'Zangezur corridor' is realized, 'Iran will also lose one of its most crucial transit routes to the Caucasus, as the land route through Iran and Armenia that reaches Georgia is a main part of the Persian Gulf–Black Sea Corridor.'That situation would be particularly damaging, as prospects for the lifting of U.S.
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