Basically, the project of the Second Karabakh War was not for the liberation of Karabakh, but as a cover for the implementation of \u201cNATO Turani Corridor\u201d, which has failed so far; but before explaining the nature of this corridor, it is necessary to mention that using the fake term \u201cZangezur Corridor\u201d instead of \u201cNATO Turani Corridor\u201d is wrong from a historical, political and legal point of view, because the word \u201cZangezur Corridor\u201d or more precisely the fake word the \u201cWestern Zangezur\u201d refers to Syunik Province in the south of Armenia, which forms the border between Iran and Armenia.
\nIn fact, this word has a territorial claim against the Syunik Province of Armenia, which means a violation of the territorial integrity of that country and violation of Article 4 of the United Nations Charter.
\nFrom the perspective of the West, Russia, China and Iran are the three main enemies of NATO, and their alliance means creating a new regional order against the West. Since the Caucasus and Central Asia region, as the heartland of the Earth, is the only region that is shared with those three countries, therefore it is considered as the most suitable geographical focus to attack Iran, Russia and China, and the driving engine of that focus is promoting the idea of Pan-Turkism and Pan-Turanism.
\nIn this process, the idea of \u201cPan-Turkism\u201d like the idea of \u201cNazism\u201d and its \u201cTurani Corridor\u201d like \u201cHitler\u2019s Danzig Corridor\u201d before the Second World War for the geopolitical changes of playing the role of a beehive in the following four axes, are supposed to hit the three mentioned countries.
\n1. Transit area: Russia, China and Iran are currently at the center of four important transit projects \u201cOne Belt One Road\u201d, \u201cNorth-South Corridor\u201d, \u201cPersian Gulf to Black Sea Corridor\u201d and \u201cECO Corridor\u201d. In the framework of NATO Turani Corridor, Ankara is going to create the \u201cLazure Corridor\u201d from Turkey to the Caucasus and Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan (Gwadar), and the aforementioned four corridors will somehow be cut off or weakened.
\n2. Energy arear: NATO Turani Corridor is supposed to bring gas of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan from the Caspian to Baku. Currently, the gas transmission pipeline (including South Caucasus, TANAP and TAP) is active from Baku to Italy, but Baku alone does not have enough gas to send through this pipeline. With the realization of NATO Turani Corridor and gas connection of the three mentioned countries to those pipelines, Europe will not have a serious need for Russian gas in the form of Nord Stream strategic pipelines, and Iran and geopolitical capacities of Russia and Iran in the field of energy will be weakened and China will also face problems in supplying its energy needs from Central Asia. From this point of view, the supporters of NATO Turani Corridor project hope that with the approval of the Caspian Legal Regime Convention in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, in which the construction of energy pipelines in the Caspian bed is allowed, the way for the establishment of the Turani Corridor energy pipeline will be paved.
\n3. In the area of ethnic issues: NATO Turani Corridor is supposed to create a broad ethnic wave based on pan-Turkism against the Azeri and Turkmen regions of Iran, the Uyghurs regions of China and the Tatar and Turkic regions of Russia, relying on the ethnic foundation that Baku and Turkey have created in the area of Azeris, Turkmen, Tatars and Uyghurs.
\n4. In the area of NATO expansion: NATO Turani Corridor is supposed to directly bring NATO into the northern borders of Iran, southern Russia, and western China in Xinjiang and complete the plan to encircle those countries and lay the groundwork for their disintegration. NATO presence in the Caucasus and Central Asia complements Russia\u2019s blockade plan from the Black Sea, China\u2019s blockade from the South China Sea, and Iran\u2019s blockade from the Persian Gulf. Also, in NATO\u2019s goal setting, NATO Turani Corridor is a prelude to strengthening the organization of the so-called Turkic-speaking countries and establishing the so-called \u201cTurkish NATO\u201d in the form of this organization (similar to the idea of the Arab NATO in the Persian Gulf Cooperation Organization).
\nIf Baku, Ankara and NATO are not really trying to implement the \u201cNATO Turani Corridor\u201d conspiracy by attacking Syunik, the best solution is to cross this route at the border point of Zangilan and Nakhchivan with Armenia from inside Iran\u2019s territory the memorandum of understanding for which was signed by Tehran and Baku in March 2022.
\nIn the past three decades, Iran has been the main route (not an alternative one) connecting the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan, connecting Turkey to the Republic of Azerbaijan, and also connecting Armenia with the outside world.
\nThe same pivotal role of Iran, with the aim of ensuring lasting peace between Baku, Yerevan and Ankara, can now also be strengthened through the continuation of the Zangilan to Nakhchivan road from Iranian soil, while it is possible that other (only) communication lines between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan via Kazakh (which has a road to Yerevan and north of Nakhchivan); despite such solutions, Baku and Ankara\u2019s insistence on the passage of the corridor through southern Armenia will be beating the drum of \u201cNATO Turani Corridor\u201d, which is not of a transit and commercial nature, but of a political, security and military, and geopolitical nature and based on territorial claims and will be faced with the opposition and strong reaction from some countries, especially Iran and Russia.
\nNaturally, with the logic of Baku-Ankara, Iran can also request the establishment of a corridor from the Qarasu region to Yerevan, so that Iran\u2019s access to Yerevan from the border point is reduced from about 400 km to less than 50 km, especially since Qarasu was a part of Iran until 90 years ago.
\nBaku and Ankara\u2019s insistence on \u201cNATO Turani Corridor\u201d will not lead to the realization of this corridor, but also by creating regional divergence and relying on ethnocentrism, the future will make Karabakh more ambiguous, the internal differences in Aliyev\u2019s rule will intensify, and the discontent and ethnic faults in the Republic of Azerbaijan will become more active, while this issue can be converted into the Achilles heel of the Justice and Development Party government in the June 2023 elections against the six-member coalition and the Kurdish and the Alevis coalition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the passage of more than 22 months since the second Karabakh war project, still the conspiracy of creating the \u201cNATO Turani Corridor\u201d under the fake name \u201cZangezur Corridor\u201d is high on the agenda of NATO with the United States, Britain and international Zionis playing the central role.
\nDr. Ahmad Kazemi – senior researcher on Eurasia affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":145967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12607,8530,6755],"tags":[1300,1946,524,36155,36154,525,36153,1415,29684,958,36152,26772,495,2642,33387],"class_list":["post-146069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-12607","category-8530","category-6755","tag-1300","tag-1946","tag-524","tag-36155","tag-36154","tag-525","tag-36153","tag-1415","tag-29684","tag-958","tag-36152","tag-26772","tag-495","tag-2642","tag-33387"],"yoast_head":"\n