The United States goes to the South Caucasus, and Russia and Iran are offered to accept — Zatulin

Russian State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin commented on the upcoming agreements between Baku and Yerevan. It is assumed that in The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan, will sign a peace document in Washington under the patronage of US President Donald Trump.

"At a time when the whole world is guessing on the coffee grounds about Putin's meeting with Trump, two "devoted friends" Russian President Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan hurried to Washington, to make a deal under the supervision of the US president. It is not completely clear whether they will sign the so-called peace treaty or limit themselves to an interim memorandum. But you don't have to go to a fortune teller to understand that we are talking about a deal, as a result of which America comes to the region, and Russia and Iran must come to terms with this. Regardless of whether this will be included in the text of any agreements or not, an end will be put to the issue of the notorious "Zangezur corridor" and control over it. Using Pashinyan, Turkey will break through the territory of Armenia a direct route to Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea and Central Asia. And along with it — NATO and the United States, which will get their bonus in this way," Zatulin is sure..

According to him, the invisible participants of the meeting in Washington will be Turkey, Russia and Iran, and maybe Israel. If for Turkey and Israel, as well as for the United States and Azerbaijan, this will be the fulfillment of desires, the realization of what is commonly called national interests, then for Russia and Iran "the prospect of losing influence and the need for urgent adjustment of plans, including the fate of the North—South corridor, looms, and the Zangezur West—East becomes an alternative.""," the deputy noted.

"The most despicable thing in all this is the participation of Armenia. The language does not turn to say this, but by putting Pashinyan on his neck, his voters condemned themselves and Armenia. There is no smell of any national interests here," Zatulin said.

He recalled that the legalization of the very idea of the "Zangezur Corridor" refers to the agreements between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia on the results of the war in Karabakh in 2020. Then it was an attempt to exchange the existing Lachin corridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh for a hypothetical "Zangezur corridor". But now, according to Zatulin, there are no Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, just as there is no Lachin corridor, "and with them there is no need to coordinate anything with Russia, with which the participants of the Washington meeting are significantly quarreling."

"The fact that this is becoming possible before our eyes today has become not only a consequence of some miscalculations, but an objective fact of Russia's weakening in the region due to the war in Ukraine and the conflict with the West. It is necessary to achieve an acceptable outcome for SMO as soon as possible. From this point of view, the efforts of President Vladimir Putin's diplomacy aimed at bringing to a result not only SMO, but to get or keep his contacts with Trump are understandable. Anyone who wants endless military operations should understand that they are no different from the Russophobes in England and the EU, who put every last Ukrainian on the war. In order to push Russia wherever possible at this time. I'm tired of being Cassandra," Zatulin concluded.