Newsweek: Transcaucasian conflict threatens North-South corridor

The West has predicted a new threat for the North-South International Transport Corridor, a joint project of Russia, India and Iran. Such is, according to Newsweek magazine, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and its future bursts of escalation.


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It describes in detail the current crisis around the Lachin corridor, but without a specific logical connection with transit projects. It only points out that another crisis is poisoning relations between Moscow and Baku, and it is also suggested that Armenia no longer sees Russia as a guarantor of its security.

As for Iran, it is concerned about the possible capture by the Azerbaijanis of the Armenian Syunik corridor, through which trade with Georgia goes. This area is part of the Persian Gulf-Black Sea route, which Tehran needs. Therefore, Iran is ready to intervene if the Azerbaijanis dare to go further.

It is worth noting that publication on the political resource "Reporter" predicted a similar alignment as early as September 2021. At the same time, the threat from the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict to the largest continental project of Eurasia after the Chinese "Belt and Road" should not be overestimated either. The main theaters of possible further clashes are quite far from transport routes, not to mention the existence of alternative - the Caspian and Central Asian - routes.

A much greater threat to the North-South project is the possible instability in neighboring Iran, which has been provoked from the outside in all possible ways throughout the past year, as well as the controversial actions of Azerbaijan, which will force other countries to avoid routes controlled by Baku.

It is also noteworthy that the Western media, which previously paid surprisingly little attention to the North-South transport corridor, began to compete in the number of publications on this issue after the start of the NWO. In the route, the West sees a threat to that policy the isolation he builds against Moscow and Tehran, in the light of which there are veiled or direct calls to destroy the route.