TEHRAN: Iran won’t enable the creation beneath a US-brokered peace deal of a hall close to the Iranian border linking Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave, an adviser to supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated Saturday (Aug 9).
The deliberate hall, dubbed the “Trump Route for Worldwide Peace and Prosperity”, is a key a part of a peace deal signed on the White Home on Friday between Azerbaijan and its longtime foe Armenia.
Nonetheless, the proposed route, during which america may have improvement rights, passes close to the Iranian border and Khamenei’s worldwide affairs adviser Ali Akbar Velayati stated Iran wouldn’t settle for it.
“With the implementation of this plot, the safety of the South Caucasus might be endangered,” Velayati instructed the Tasnim information company,
He stated the deliberate hall was “an not possible notion and won’t occur”, whereas the world would turn into “a graveyard for Trump’s mercenaries”.
Iran has lengthy opposed the deliberate transit route, often known as the Zangezur hall – fearing it could reduce the nation off from Armenia and the remainder of the Caucasus, and convey a overseas presence to its border.
“We have now the correct to defend our pursuits in a very highly effective method,” Velayati stated, including that Iran had held a number of navy workout routines within the space to indicate its “readiness”.
