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Iran threatened on Saturday to block a corridor planned in the Caucasus as part of a regional agreement sponsored by US President Donald Trump, Iranian media reported, raising a new question point on a peace plan praised as a strategically important change.
A great diplomat in Azerbaijani said earlier than the plan, announced by Trump on Friday, was only a stage in a final peace contract between his country and Armenia, who reiterated his support for the plan.
The Trump Way proposed for international peace and prosperity (tripp) would cross Southern Armenia, giving Azerbaijan a direct road to its exclave from Nakhchivan and, in turn, to Turkey.
The United States would have exclusive development rights on the corridor, which, according to the White House, would facilitate larger energy exports and other resources.
It was not immediately clear how Iran, which borders the region, would block it, but the declaration of Ali Akbar Velayati, the best adviser to the supreme chief of Iran, raised questions about his security.
He said that military exercises carried out in northwestern Iran have demonstrated the preparation and determination of the Islamic Republic to prevent any geopolitical change.
“This corridor will not become a passage belonging to Trump, but rather a cemetery for Trump mercenaries,” said Velayati.
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the agreement earlier “as an important step towards sustainable regional peace”, but warned against any foreign intervention near its borders which could “undermine the security of the region and sustainable stability”.
Analysts and initiates claim that Iran, under pressure from the United States on its disputed nuclear program and the consequences of a 12-day war with Israel in June, does not have military power to block the corridor.
Moscow says West should avoid
Trump welcomed Nikol Pashinyan on Friday at the White House, President Azerbaijani and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House and saw their signature of a joint declaration aimed at drawing a line under their conflict for several decades.
Russia, a traditional broker and ally of Armenia in the strategically important Caucasus region, which is crisscrossing with oil and gas pipelines, was not included, despite its border guards on the border between Armenia and Iran.
While Moscow said that he had supported the summit, he proposed “to implement solutions developed by the countries of the region themselves with the support of their immediate neighbors-Russia, Iran and Turkey” to avoid what he called the “sad experience” of Western efforts to mediate in the Middle East.
The ally close to Azerbaijan, Turkey member of NATO, welcomed the agreement.
Bakou and Erevan have disagreed since the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region of Azerbaijani, mainly populated by ethnic Armenians, separated from Azerbaijan with the support of Armenia. Azerbaijan resumed total control of the region in 2023, which prompted almost every 100,000 Armenians of the territory to flee from Armenia.
“The chapter of enmity is closed and now we are heading towards sustainable peace,” said Elin Suleymanov, the Azerbaijan ambassador to Great Britain, specifying that prosperity and the transport bonds in the broad sense would be transformed for the best.
“This is a paradigm shift,” said Suleymanov, who, as a former Washington, worked at the office of President Aliyev, is one of the most senior diplomats in his country.
Suleymanov refused to speculate on the moment when a final peace contract is signed, noting that Aliyev said he wanted it to happen soon.
There was only one obstacle, said Suleymanov, who was for Armenia to modify his constitution to remove a reference to Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Azerbaijan is ready to sign at any time once Armenia fills the very fundamental commitment to suppress its territorial request against Azerbaijan in its constitution,” he said.
Many unanswered questions
Pashinyan this year called a referendum to modify the Constitution, but no date has yet been set. Armenia must organize legislative elections in June 2026, and the new Constitution should be written before the vote.
The Armenian chief said on X that the Washington summit had paved the way at the end of the decades of conflict and open transport connections that would unlock strategic economic opportunities.
Asked when the railway road to public transport begins to run, Suleymanov said that it would depend on the cooperation between the United States and Armenia, which, according to him, was already in talks.
Joshua Kucera, South Caucasus principal analyst at International Crisis Group, said Trump may not have obtained the easy victory he hoped for, because the agreements left many unanswered questions.
The question of the constitution of Armenia continued to threaten to derail the process, and it was not clear how the new transport corridor would work in practice.
“Key details are missing, especially on how customs and security checks will work and the nature of Armenia’s reciprocal access to Azerbaijani territory. These could be serious trips,” Kucera said.
Suleymanov played suggestions that Russia, which still has extensive security and economic interests in Armenia, was disadvantaged.
“Anyone and everyone can benefit if they wish,” he said.
