U.S.- and Sweden-based think tank: Russia and Iran will resist Trump Route

Published: 2026-01-16 13:53

"Russia would like to keep the process ‘regionalizable’ and resist a precedent of long-term U.S. operating control, while Iran will treat optics as substance, especially regarding anything that looks like foreign security infrastructure adjacent to Iran’s border. Turkey’s attitude is broadly enabling, because the route (the Trump Route) advances Ankara’s connectivity vision and strengthens its ties with Azerbaijan. The evolution of domestic Armenian politics, however, is what will really determine the outcome: whether Pashinyan’s forces receive a majority of seats in the June parliamentary election, and whether a subsequent referendum will approve the necessary change in Armenia’s constitution," notes Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, an online publication of the Washington- and Stockholm-based think tank, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center.

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News