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OC Media (17 December 2025)

Arshaluys Barseghyan

Over the past week, Iran has criticised the Trump Route (TRIPP), while Russia cited ‘sufficient grounds’ for its potential involvement in the project. Armenian officials, however, rejected Iran’s criticism and stated that no discussions regarding Russian participation have taken place.

On  Monday, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, criticised the Trump Route during a meeting with Armenia’s Ambassador to Iran, Grigor Hakobyan.

Comparing the Trump Route to Azerbaijani demands for what appears to be an extraterritorial corridor dubbed the ‘Zangezur corridor’, connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave through Armenia, Velayati, according to Iranian state news agency IRNA, said that Tehran ‘is firmly opposed to it’.

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