TEHRAN: Iran won’t enable the creation below 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 mentioned 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, by which the US can have improvement rights, passes close to the Iranian border and Khamenei’s worldwide affairs adviser Ali Akbar Velayati mentioned Iran wouldn’t settle for it.
“With the implementation of this plot, the safety of the South Caucasus can be endangered,” Velayati instructed the Tasnim information company,
He mentioned the deliberate hall was “an inconceivable notion and won’t occur”, whereas the realm would change into “a graveyard for Trump’s mercenaries”.
Iran has lengthy opposed the deliberate transit route, also called the Zangezur hall – fearing it might lower the nation off from Armenia and the remainder of the Caucasus, and produce a overseas presence to its border.
“Now we have the correct to defend our pursuits in a very highly effective method,” Velayati mentioned, including that Iran had held a number of army workout routines within the space to point out its “readiness”.
