Iran-Russia Pact

Putin and Pezeshkian ink partnership treaty — security, defence, transport and energy are the foundations of the 47-article agreement...

Iran offers the shortest international transport corridors across Eurasia, linking Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It serves as the continent’s natural bridge and crossroads for trade, energy, and air routes.

Words and graphics don’t do justice to the intricate reality of its geographical position. With seven neighbouring countries, a critical maritime chokepoint — the Strait of Hormuz — running through its littoral waters, and a coastline along the Caspian Sea — the world’s largest inland sea, bordered by five nations — Iran offers direct land routes to Turkey, Pakistan, and Central Asia, as well as a strategically vital corridor to China via Afghanistan. Its land and maritime transport corridors also extend to the Arabian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, Africa, Russia, and beyond.

For over half a century, the collective West, through coercive design, has kept this pivotal Eurasian connector unplugged — rerouting global trade through Western-controlled routes. Washington's san…