{"id":73327,"date":"2025-08-10T01:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/09\/iran-and-russia-stand-to-lose-from-us-deal-with-azerbaijan-and-armenia"},"modified":"2025-08-10T01:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:10:22","slug":"iran-and-russia-stand-to-lose-from-us-deal-with-azerbaijan-and-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73327","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Russia stand to lose from US deal with Azerbaijan and Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-brokered peace treaty predicted to suffocate geopolitical influence of Washington\u2019s rivals in region<\/p>\n<p>Iran expressed concern about foreign interference on Saturday, fearing it had been carved out of a declaration brokered by Donald Trump between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The two countries have come closer to ending 35 years of enmity by signing a peace treaty in Washington and agreeing to a US private consortium taking control of a strategic corridor on Iran\u2019s border.<\/p>\n<p>The corridor passing through southern Armenia will link Azerbaijan with its exclave Nakhchivan, a longstanding demand of Baku. The US will operate the corridor under Armenian sovereignty on a 99-year land lease, changing the balance of power in the region. Some Iranian commentators claimed the deal amounts to \u201cIran\u2019s geopolitical suffocation in the region\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/09\/iran-and-russia-stand-to-lose-from-us-deal-with-azerbaijan-and-armenia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-brokered peace treaty predicted to suffocate geopolitical influence of Washington\u2019s rivals in regionIran expressed concern about foreign interference on Saturday, fearing it had been carved out of a declaration brokered by Donald Trump between Az&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,221,448,212,419,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-russia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73328,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73327\/revisions\/73328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}