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Armenia`s security is Iran`s security – scholar

ARMINFO
Armenia – June 6 2022
David Stepanyan

ArmInfo.Tehran, is, no doubt, interested in a security platform with the participation of Armenia and Russia, Vardan Voskanyan, Head of the Chair of Iranian Studies,  Yerevan State University, said in an interview with ArmInfo. 

"It is not known if any specific steps are being made toward  establishing such trilateral cooperation. In any case, nothing like  that is on the open agenda. Interested in the South Caucasus, Tehran  is closely following all the regional processes for the primary  reason that they – and the Caucasus-related geopolitics – directly  concern Iran," the scholar said.  

Iran is the only state considering Armenia's territorial integrity to  be a redline for itself. And Tehran showed that not only by means of  political rhetoric, but also by specific steps, particular the recent  military exercise along the Iranian-Azerbaijani border. Iran will  never allow Turkish-Azerbaijani encroachments on the Armenian border. 

Mr Voskanyan does not rule out Armenian-Iranian consultations on the  "geopolitical impulses" in the region, particularly on the  Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. He notes that such consultations are  belated, and the Yerevan-Tehran cooperation needs higher efficiency. 

"One more all-important issue on the Armenian-Iranian agenda is the  North-South highway construction.  Many people view the project only  in its economic aspect, whereas the North-South is a most important  component of the entire region's security, to say nothing of its  geopolitical significance. Tehran is perfectly aware of that.  Evidence thereof is also Iran's statements that the  Goradiz-Meghri-Julfa-Ordubad-Yeraskh railway can by no means be  considered the trunk line between Armenia and Iran. Rather, it is the  North- South highway," Mr Voskanyan said. -t–  

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS