Iran and India prevent opening of second front in Transcaucasia -  Political Scientist

ArmInfo.It is the Islamic Republic of Iran and India that prevent the opening of a second front against Russia in the South Caucasus. This opinion was expressed in an interview with the BelTA agency by a well-known Moscow orientalist, political  scientist Karine Gevorgyan.

She recalled that the leaders of Iran and India had unequivocally  stated that they would not allow borders to be redrawn, that any  redrawing of borders in the South Caucasus is a war against them. The  political scientist explained this position by the fact that,  regardless of who leads Armenia, these countries will help him,  preventing attempts to change the geopolitical alignment, behind  which, according to the political scientist, stands not only Turkey,  but, first of all, Great Britain, the author of the pan-Turkist  project.

Speaking about the real assistance, the political scientist recalled  India's arms supplies to Armenia. ,  the political scientist believes.

According to the political scientist, Iran, India and the Arabian  monarchies consider the "Turkish project" as a real threat to their  interests. Therefore, it is these countries that are inciting Russia  to form its own monetary and economic zone, not in opposition to the  Chinese one, but covering a slightly different contour. Thus, Russia  can be a kind of balancer between the Chinese-Far Eastern and  Iranian-Indian contours.

From this point of view, speaking about the geopolitical priorities  of Armenia in the person of Nikol Pashinyan, Gevorgyan noted the  wrong opinion that the Prime Minister of Armenia "wants to please the  West" and this, allegedly, is indicated by his refusal to conduct  CSTO exercises in the country. "This thesis seemed ridiculous to me,  because, by and large, I am well aware of what is happening in the  region.  Therefore, when Pashinyan announced the rejection of the  CSTO exercises, he meant something completely different. The CSTO  exercises are scheduled for years to hold. These exercises were  planned and they had to take place. And then Pashinyan speaks and  says: "under the current conditions, this is impossible." But that's  not all, here he notices that he does not want to endanger Moscow.  For some reason no one paid attention at this point. And the logic is  clear - and why does Moscow need these exercises now in the  Transcaucasus. . Why bring here the soldiers of Kazakhstan and  Kyrgyzstan who graduated from Turkish academies, who see themselves  in the future "Army of Turan"? 

And there are serious military facilities in Armenia, and Russia has  strengthened its technical presence there. Why bring them there? I  can't assume that Pashinyan made this statement without informing the  Russian side at all, which kept silent at the highest level? This is  an obvious agreement and definitely not for the benefit of the West>,  the political scientist noted. 

According to her, let the West think that "Pashinyan plays for the  West, but I'm sure that in fact he plays for Moscow." The political  scientist believes that the Armenians of the whole world understand  that the guarantor of the existence of Armenia as a state and the  preservation of the Armenian people in this territory is only Russia  and partly Iran. , Gevorgyan emphasized. Therefore, it is not by chance that the  activists of the radical Sasna Tsrer party who came to the US to  agitate against Russia, against its military presence in Armenia and  for the withdrawal of 102 Russian bases, who arrived in the United  States, were pelted with "rotten tomatoes". And that means a lot.