Adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Akbar and Ayati turned to Nikol Pashinyan.
In the article "Openly and honestly - to Mr. Prime Minister", published in the Atalat newspaper, Valiati blames Yerevan for the fact that Armenia's foreign policy is actually subordinated to the interests of France, the United States and Great Britain. He calls the approval of the TRIPP project a strategic mistake.
According to him, for eight years, Pashinyan managed to talk to everyone who claims to be a guarantor of security in the region, but as a result, Armenia's relations with its neighbors - Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey, and possibly also with Georgia - remain unstable. Tehran sees this as an attempt to sit on several chairs at the same time: to negotiate with competing players without calculating the consequences of their contradictions.
Tehran is particularly concerned about the TRIPP project. For Baku and Ankara, these are new transportation opportunities; For Iran, this is a risk to the strategic balance on its northern border. Velayati recalled that Tehran opposed the corridor already in 2021 - and this line remains a "red line". In rather harsh words, the adviser warned that crossing this line would have serious consequences.
Despite this, Pashinyan continues to move closer to the West: he agrees on the parameters of TRIPP with Washington and allows the submission of an application to join the European Union in 2027-2028. At the same time, Yerevan is making specific political and infrastructural concessions to Brussels, Baku and Ankara - and the tension with its neighbors is only increasing.
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