The European Analytical Portal Modern Diplomacy has published an article by a political scientist, a deputy of the 4th convocation of the Azerbaijani parliament, director of the TLM Center Jahun Osmanly, dedicated to the reasons for the rapprochement of Iran with Armenia and Russia (https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/12/03/friends -in-metortune-what-will-rapprocement-win-armenia-rad-russia-give-irran/)
We give this article unchanged.
The geopolitical alignment in the region of the South Caucasus, including components such as ensuring peace and security, as well as economic integration, underwent significant changes after the victory of Azerbaijan in a 44-day war, which resulted in the liberation of the international recognized territories of Azerbaijan from the Armenian occupation that lasted about three decades.
Azerbaijan’s victory and the restoration of historical justice, which laid the foundation for the Great Return of Azerbaijanis in Karabakh against the background of the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, who was successfully implemented on the liberated territories, at the same time actualized the formation of a post -conflict agenda in the region. There is no surprise that in this connection there is a rapid activation of international actors aimed at obtaining an element of a political lever in the region.
At the same time, the only country that remained for the broken trough, except for the victim and surrendering Armenia, is Iran, which positions itself as a friend of Armenia and almost a guarantor of its safety. The chronology of the events of the convergence of the two shots is replete with vain attempts to build multilateral cooperation against the backdrop of international sanctions imposed on Iran, and the aggressor policy of Armenia, which has territorial claims not only to Azerbaijani, but also in Turkey and Georgia.
It is noteworthy that after the end of the Second Karabakh war, Baku, adhering to the course of the normalization of relations with Iran, proposed that Tehran cooperation in the framework of the 3+3 format (3+2), and also invited Iran to join the project of the Zangesur corridor . However, Iran evaluates this project as a threat to its national interests and is afraid of the prospects of being cut off from the Caucasus.
In this regard, the Iranian expert community and leading media of Iran make identical statements about the support of the borders of Armenia in order to torpedoing the Opening process of the Zangezur corridor in the latter. In this geopolitical game, Tehran relies on Armenia in order to play on contradictions in the regional agenda, because the constructive atmosphere of political dialogue and healthy cooperation is not that environment for the internal sanctional mechanism that has become aggravated in the abyss.