Iran Touts Russia-Iran-India ‘North-South Trade Corridor’ As “Alternative” & Challenge To Suez Canal

Although in a long-term perspective it is necessary to consider that Europe will end up in rubble, these commercial channels will still be useful in intra Asian terms, the West is already a little started to irrelevance and in the future will make it worse.

another phenomenon to upset the decayed declining empire and the crippled colonies that believe their hollywood phantasies

In and perfect world, the Suez channel would have been replaced by this route… But this is not a perfect world.

Not through Azeristan, that country must be isolated, make it go through Armenia, Iran

way to go, good initiative… everybody (except Egypt) can benefit from

That helps South Asia, but not China which is the source of most of the traffic. Arctic seems more plausible.

electric trains or diesel run ones? and it’s a container vessel and not a tanker. and the yankee-twats won’t like it one bit since they can’t close the nsts corridor as easily as the suez canal. it’s all a matter of control and the yankee-twats are pissed off with china’s silk road project since it leaves them solidly in second place.

Nothing can compete with the Suez-CANAL it is to expensive land road transport and sometimes logistically impossible due to the weight. Ships can carry heavy stuff. Large trains can carry also good amount but I don’t think Iran has railroad link with Azerbaijan it has to be trucked

Rohani admin is hard at work to insult the Chinese so maybe they can break the deal? From petty insults like breaking protocol for a photo standing (recent meeting Zarif and Yi) to sending someone with a much lower ranking (like a director from the ministry of foreign affairs) to receive president Xi at the airport and now this, right after signing the deal with China. Good thing that decision makers put someone else in charge of the deal, not Zarif and the Chinese know these traitors are gone in a couple of months, hopefully forever. They told us a couple years ago that Iran is not serious about BRI and they are forced to look for alternatives.

You have to understand, while the idea is fantastic, the trade between Russia and India is negligible (Russia’s export to India is <$6bn and its import from India is ~$3.5. Compare that with its trade with China) which by no means can justify the expense of completing the corridor. But the existence of corridor is a very good idea for global trade, not just India and the idea is not new. The same admin that suddenly had this bright idea is the same admin which stopped all works on this corridor in the last 8 years.

This admin did the same with every country which could be am important (and convenient) trade partner for Iran and a sanction buster. They created rifts with our every single neighbour (aside from Saudi/Emirati/Bahrain who don't need any help) to a point we have almost no trade with our neighbours, aside from Iraq by selling them some gas and electricity which we don't receive any payment in return (they owe us close to $6bn).

To give you an example, when 4 countries boycotted Qatar, Qataris requested Iran to export everything we can for them, We could supply all their needs. What our administration did was to immediately put a long list of regulations for exporters. The result was just export of one or two container of vegetables and fruits a day. Another example was when Russia decided to stop imports from Turkey following their plane shoot down, they proposed the same to Iran to replace Turkey. A similar thing happened and we ended up exporting nothing. Although they are careful to export certain things when there's a shortage of that certain thing (like tomatoes when a sudden cold ruins the harvest and there's a temporarily shortage, they lift all regulations for exporting tomato. Instead when there's a surplus of a product, like right now we have 10 times our domestic needs of apples, they ban exporting it. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of apple is going to be wasted and the farmers ruined. The amount is much more than our capacity to process them into cedar or dry them (we used to export apples for topical fruits, that's why there's so much apples). And it's not just apples. Tens of thousands of factories are closed now because of the insane bureaucracy he introduced and the free reign he gave to the banks to confiscate factories which against the law (the usual way is the factory got a loan in foreign currencies, the Rial nose-dived, now the actual amount the factory has to pay is 10 times more than it received). Tens of thousands of factories and workshops went bankrupt, closed or taken.

You may ask why the parliament didn’t impeach him? Well, the 2 last parliament was full of their cronies. This parliament decided to contain him as much as they can because it’s too expensive politically to remove him in the last months of his terms. Parliament and the head of judiciary worked tirelessly to reopen the closed factories, they started from the largest ones and made a task force for the workshops too, about 20.000 re-opened since last year and counting.

Nothing is more dangerous than a well entrenched fifth column for a country. If it wasn’t for them, no amount of sanction could dent our economy.

I prefer this map. https://www.onthemosway.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2942729-768×512.jpg