Azerbaijan Begins Massing Military at Iran Border

The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has begun to concentrate military equipment near the Iran-Azerbaijan border because . . . "Zangezur...."

According to reports from regional sources, representatives of the Israel regime allegedly assured him: "Stay calm — Zangezur will be yours."

The Zangezur Corridor is shown on the map below.  The problem is that if Azerbaijan takes this area, it will cut off the border access between ARMENIA and Iran.   Neither ARMENIA nor IRAN will accept such a cut-off.

The Zangezur corridor is a concept for a transport corridor which, if implemented, would give Azerbaijan unimpeded access to Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic without Armenian checkpoints via Armenia's Syunik Province and, in a broad sense, for the geopolitical corridor that would connect Turkey to the rest of the Turkic world thereby "uniting it".

The concept was not part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan but was introduced to geopolitical lexicon later by Ilham Aliyev. It has since been promoted by Azerbaijan and Turkey, while Armenia has steadily objected to it, asserting that "corridor logic" deviates from the ceasefire statement, and that it is a form of propaganda.

The terminology, the potential routes, and the modes of transport connections have since been points of contention between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which are still maintaining a mutual blockade since 1989. Azerbaijan has initiated construction projects on its territory presenting them as part of the implementation of a so-called "Zangezur corridor" and threatened that should Armenia not want it, Azerbaijan "will decide it by force".