Tehran and Moscow perceive TRIPP differently: whose interest comes first?

Russia and Iran take different approaches to TRIPP, said Caucasus expert Karen Igityan in an interview with Alpha News.

He noted that Tehran has made high-level statements opposing the Trump Route project, while Russia’s stance is that if the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement, it should join the process and exert influence from within.

“Moscow will join to make it serve its own interests. It is important to understand that whether it is the ‘Zangezur Corridor’ or the ‘Trump Route,’ it is not an economic project but a military-political one,” Igityan noted.

According to the expert, the whole meaning of the “Zangezur Corridor” is that all the resources of Central Asia are transported to the West without the control of Iran or Russia. The military-political component of all this, he said, is that the West could use that corridor to supply weapons to Azerbaijan or Middle Eastern countries if they become involved in a conflict against Russia or Iran.