TEHRAN: Iran won’t permit the creation below a US-brokered peace deal of a hall close to the Iranian border linking Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave, an adviser to supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mentioned Saturday (Aug 9).
The deliberate hall, dubbed the “Trump Route for Worldwide Peace and Prosperity”, is a key a part of a peace deal signed on the White Home on Friday between Azerbaijan and its longtime foe Armenia.
Nevertheless, the proposed route, by which the USA may have growth rights, passes close to the Iranian border and Khamenei’s worldwide affairs adviser Ali Akbar Velayati mentioned Iran wouldn’t settle for it.
“With the implementation of this plot, the safety of the South Caucasus can be endangered,” Velayati informed the Tasnim information company,
He mentioned the deliberate hall was “an unimaginable notion and won’t occur”, whereas the world would grow to be “a graveyard for Trump’s mercenaries”.
Iran has lengthy opposed the deliberate transit route, often known as the Zangezur hall – fearing it will lower the nation off from Armenia and the remainder of the Caucasus, and convey a international presence to its border.
“We now have the suitable to defend our pursuits in a very highly effective method,” Velayati mentioned, including that Iran had held a number of navy workouts within the space to point out its “readiness”.
