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Wed, 24/02/2016 - 10:57
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Railroad Diplomacy: Azerbaijan seeks to torpedo possible Iranian agreements with Armenia
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev paid a visit to Iran on February 23 where he signed a number of agreements. But the most important of them appeared to be the document on the merger of the Iranian and Azerbaijani railways that some in Baku have already called “the Persian defeat of [Armenian President Serzh] Sargsyan.”



Iran had organized a kind of competition between Armenia and Azerbaijan, hinting that communication with Europe and Russia could be established either via Armenia or Azerbaijan. This caused certain steps from both South Caucasus countries.

Last week, President Serzh Sargsyan convened consultations on the prospects of the development of relations with Iran.

Among the most likely areas of cooperation he singled out increasing the capacity of electric power supplies to Iran as well as the offer to become a reliable platform for Western capital that wants to invest in Iran.

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