No `corridor`, road in question - Iranian ambassador 

ArmInfo.  There will be no 'corridor,' we are talking about a road.  This was stated by the Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Mehdi Sobhani in a conversation with journalists on September 9 in the RA parliament, commenting on the recent statements of the President of Azerbaijan that the so-called "Zangezur corridor will soon become another important segment of the Middle Corridor." 

Earlier, in his speech at the SCO summit, Baku leader Ilham Aliyev  praised the prospects of the so-called 'Zangezur Corridor.' "The  recent agreements to connect the mainland of Azerbaijan with its  Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic will help expand transit opportunities  for international transportation. I am confident that the Zangezur  Corridor will soon become another important segment of the Middle  Corridor, as well as the North-South Corridor, which will strengthen  peace, multilateral partnership and benefit all of Azerbaijan's near  and far neighbors to the east, west, north and south of our borders,"  Aliyev said.

"There is nothing called a 'corridor', we are talking about a road.  Neither the peace agreement nor the signed declaration mention a  corridor," the Iranian diplomat said.

When asked what Tehran is prepared to do if Baku does decide to open  a 'corridor,' Mehdi Sobhani insisted: 'there will be no 'corridor.'  Violence will not achieve anything'

On August 8, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani  President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint "Declaration of Peace" in  Washington. It provides for a joint appeal to the Organization for  Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to terminate the OSCE Minsk  process and related structures, as well as the creation of a  transport corridor through Armenian territory that will connect  Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave. The TRIPP project (Trump  Route for International Peace and Prosperity, a 42-km road in the  south of Armenia, the management of which will be entrusted to the  United States for a period of 99 years), according to experts, is  capable of significantly changing the geopolitical situation in the  South Caucasus.

During the visit of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Armenia,  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan assured him that one of the key  agreements with Azerbaijan concerns the unblocking of regional  communications, and exclusively within the framework of the  principles of territorial integrity, sovereignty and jurisdiction of  states, as well as on the basis of reciprocity. "In practice, this  will open new doors for Armenian-Iranian cooperation in rail  transportation, including the opening of the Nakhichevan-Julfa  railway. Iran will gain rail access from the Persian Gulf to the  Black Sea," the Armenian Prime Minister noted. Nikol Pashinyan also  assured that communications through Armenia will operate exclusively  under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Armenia, and that security  will be ensured by Armenia itself, and not by any other country.