Stryker1982
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They are building an alternate route.
Raisi isn’t going to storm the border region.
I think Iran would only storm and seize nakhchivan if Azeribaijan tries to invade Armenia with Turkish help. Iran must have free access to Georgia based on international law and if that is threatened then I can see Iran taking away Azeribaijan’s only land route to Turkey which would cost the Turk wannabes ALOT.
Also Iranians like to be a bit dramatic. If I had a dollar for everytime someone in Iran threatened to hurt me or kill me, I’d be able to afford to raise an army.
He’s basically telling them to back off or Iran will settle the score for this spat at a time of their choosing.
The efforts to balance relations between AZ and Armenia is a lost cause. I would preemptively escalate to change the momentum and to prevent future hardship. This is a Kirkuk like situation and multiple options are available.
I imagine they might try a "diplomatic approach", but I think this time after around 20 years of being stupid, they might finally come to their sense about Aliyev. Nemitonan behesh etminan dashte bashan dige. It's done. Diplomatic approach has been tried and tested for 10 years now and has failed in every way, and I think, the establishment no matter what ever "agreement" they come with, cannot trust that one day Syunik will not be stormed at some point in the future, and a buffer region is likely being considered at the highest level in order to put this matter to sleep.
Theirs been some tit for tat bridge burning going on lately so it is not unlikely that pre-emptive action is being considered because again, their is absolute 0 trust in any non-written "agreement" and their certainly will not be a written agreement because Armenia will refuse to allow a corridor be made that could threaten its existence.
Either they invade Syunik by force to have their corridor and Iran intervenes, or Iran pre-emptively commits to some action and ends the matter entirely. The alternative road will not mean much if they want to force a corridor and block Iranian transit.