Velayati warns against repeating the Zangezur corridor experience
Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, warned that his country would respond forcefully to any “government in the region or outside of it that seeks to repeat the previous failed experiment regarding the Zangezur corridor.”
“Once again, some pretentious governments, indifferent to their own interests and those of the region, have raised the issue of the Rangazor Corridor (Zangezur Corridor, also called Rangazor Corridor in some sources), knocking on every door to achieve their illegitimate goals in the South Caucasus,” Velayati said in a post on Twitter.
He noted that “any government in the region or outside it that wishes to repeat the previous failed experiment will face a strong response from Iran.”
Last month, the US ambassador to Ankara and special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, announced a US-led proposal to assign management of the corridor to an American logistics company, raising regional questions about the proposal’s implications for the balance of power in the South Caucasus.
In the same context, the Periodista Digital website revealed, at the same time, a memorandum of understanding between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the United States to establish the corridor and give it the “Trump” name.
The website reported that it had obtained a confidential document titled “Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of the Trump Bridge Transportation Corridor,” which had already been approved by the three parties.
The memorandum includes the implementation of a 42-kilometer-long transport corridor project passing through the Syunik province in southern Armenia. Armenia will maintain sovereignty over the area, while a private American company will operate the corridor under an official license.
