Velayati: The West and NATO "do not have the right intentions  regarding the South Caucasus"

ArmInfo.  The collective  West, led by the United States, has taken actions that have shown  that it and NATO "do not have the right intentions regarding the  South Caucasus." This was stated by Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign  policy adviser to the Supreme Leader of Iran. 

According to him, after the developments in Ukraine in recent years,  the United States,  has planned to penetrate into the South Caucasus  region under the guise of NATO and  create an alternative that would  divert Russia's attention from Ukraine to the South Caucasus.  "Iran  has resolutely resisted the influence of America and its regional  allies and prevented the formation of this conspiracy along its  northwestern borders, as a result of which NATO would have created a  permanent threat to Iran's territorial integrity," he noted, NourNews  reports.

"Iran's opposition to the opening of the "Zangezur Corridor" was due  to the fact that the West wants to organize communication from east  to west through Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea and Central Asia. Only  Iran has realized the depth of this conspiracy. Unlike the West, Iran  really wants welfare for its Azerbaijani brothers," Velayati noted.   At the same time, he noted that it took time for mutual understanding  on this issue, and now Baku and Tehran have achieved common results,  and three joint military drills have been carried out over the course  of several months.

"The joint exercises of Iran and Azerbaijan show the growth of mutual  trust between the two countries and, if God wills, it will become a  turning point in the history of Iran and Azerbaijan, in establishing  peace and security in this sensitive region," Velayati concluded.