{"id":30221,"date":"2025-08-14T07:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=30221"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:01:35","slug":"trump-deal-pm-pashinyans-national-security-giveaway-of-armenia-and-iran-is-gateway-to-wwiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=30221","title":{"rendered":"

\u2018Trump Deal\u2019<\/span> \u2013 PM Pashinyan\u2019s National Security Giveaway of Armenia and Iran Is Gateway to WWIII<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joachim Hagopian<\/p>\n

After the Great Flood upon Noah\u2019s Ark landing on Mt. Ararat, historically what came to be Armenia until last century\u2019s first genocide and now part of Turkey, Noah, his wife and their three sons, their wives and children spread out in all directions ostensibly to begin repopulating the earth. But Noah\u2019s youngest third son Japeth and his wife remained in the south Caucasus region to sow their seeds. And it was Japeth\u2019s oldest son Gomer\u2019s youngest of three sons Togarmah, who is the father of\u00a0Hayk<\/a>, the acclaimed father of ancient Armenia, rendering Noah\u2019s great-great-grandson the patriarch of the Armenian people, whose later ancient Kingdom of Armenia (331 BC to 428 AD) became the first Christian state in 301 AD.<\/p>\n

From this early biblical path through ancient history, fast forward to today and the Republic of Armenia remains by comparison a tiny landlocked remnant, enveloped on three sides by two hostile Muslim neighbors \u2013 NATO member Turkey, and to the south and east its Turkic brethren Muslim nation Azerbaijan, the former committing Armenian genocide a century ago and the latter vowing to finish the job this century. Azerbaijan dictator\u00a0Ilham Aliyev<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year threatened Armenia:<\/p>\n

A fascist state has been formed in Armenia. That fascism will either be destroyed by Armenia\u2019s leadership or by us. There is no other option. Armenia should not stand in our way. They should not act as a geographic barrier between Turkey and Azerbaijan. Armenia is effectively a source of threat to the region.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The two Turkic nations Turkey and Azerbaijan are only split by Armenia\u2019s narrow 26-mile wide land bridge called the Zangezur Corridor that shares a southern border with Iran, Islam\u2019s largest Middle East nation. Despite the fast-changing geopolitics today, Armenia has historically and now ironically enjoyed far more congenial relations with Iran than its two Turkic nations that covet and loathe Armenia for standing in the way of their resurrecting Ottoman Empire 2.0. That Armenian land strip is seen as the main obstacle preventing Turkey and Azerbaijan from establishing the strategic West Asia bulwark linking the Ottoman\u2019s version of the Silk Road trade route. But as of August 8th<\/sup>, Armenia is no longer a barrier to the Turkic pathway that undermines both the national security of Armenia as well as Iran.<\/p>\n

In late May, in a runoff election won by the narrow margin 52% to 48%, Turkish President\u00a0Tayyip Recep Erdogan<\/a>\u00a0stretched his reign over the strategic NATO member nation into his third decade at the helm. Just two weeks later on June 13th<\/sup>, President Erdogan made a key visit to Baku. Erdogan consorted with his Turkish brethren fellow dictator Ilham Aliyev, also into his third decade as lifetime Azerbaijan President after taking over from his father. Aside from\u00a0Aliyev\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0nauseating congrats ingratiation, in their joint press conference, they could not keep themselves from frothing over how close they are to attaining their Ottoman Empire 2.0 wet dream, fixated on their latest Armenian land grab acquiring its Zangezur Corridor:<\/p>\n

The opening of the Zangezur corridor is inevitable, the sooner the better.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A month ago, still fresh off his recent trip to Azerbaijan, Turkish President Erdogan essentially stated that taking the Zangezur Corridor away from Armenia to link Azeri exclave Nakhchivan with the larger Black Sea nation of Azerbaijan gives the two Turkic nations automatic linkage. Keep in mind, in addition to losing a large chunk of Armenia to Turkey\u2019s Anatolia region a century ago, along with up to a third of the Armenian people (1.5 million) during last century\u2019s first genocide at the hands of the Young Turks crypto-Jews, more ancient Armenian homelands have also been subsequently lost. Nakhchivan and as recently as 2023 Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) were taken over by another hostile Turkic sworn enemy Azerbaijan, busily\u00a0erasing all historic<\/a>\u00a0and religious landmarks from both. And now Armenia\u2019s Zangezur Corridor becomes the next chunk gone for the next century, which let\u2019s face it, means forever.<\/p>\n

With Zangezur Corridor now gone, the larger Black Sea nation of Azerbaijan for the first time in history will share a single contiguous border with its brethren nation Turkey. Their pan Turkish expansion holds huge geopolitical strategic importance within the West Asia region, with key NATO member Turkey sharing an unbroken trade pathway with oil-rich Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

This pan Turkic alliance with the West, and in particular the United States zealously backed by Israel, under current Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia has ceded its Zangezur Corridor to the US, first disclosed in a July 22nd<\/sup>\u00a0Spanish newspaper\u00a0Periodista Digita<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The bombshell piece states that a secret deal was worked out between Armenia, Azerbaijan and the United States in a document called the \u201cMemorandum of Understanding on the Creation of the Trump Bridge Transportation Corridor.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as of Friday August 8th<\/sup>, this plan is no longer speculation. Announced in Washington presided over President Trump who apparently mediated this \u201cjoint peace declaration<\/a>\u201d between Azerbaijan leader Ilham Aliyev and Armenia\u2019s Nikol Pashinyan. Last month Trump rebranded his and Israel\u2019s ass kicking 10-Day War loss to Iran as a ceasefire deal culminated with Netanyahu nominating him for a Nobel Peace prize.<\/p>\n

Now that the stage has been strategically set for the imminent kickoff of a kinetic World War III with the flashpoint the US Zangezur Corridor conquest, Trump has pulled another rebranded rabbit out of his war hat, calling it the\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity\u201d (TRIPP),\u00a0<\/strong>no doubt warranting another peace prize nomination. On paper only, this lease arrangement is under Armenian legal jurisdiction, but for all intents and purposes, Armenia is now a US war colony. As such, expect a beefed-up US military presence to rapidly grow overnight in the South Caucasus and US newly leased Trump colony corridor.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope the US private military contractor currently negotiating the Zangezur assignment with the US ZOG government does a far better, more humane job than US contractor Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), now actively participating in the Palestinian genocide alongside Israel Defense Force. West Point grad Ret. Colonel\u00a0Anthony Aguilar<\/a>, with 25-year Special Forces career experience and now a formerly employed GHF turned whistleblower has gone public detailing US complicit IDF war crimes killing starving Palestinian children at the four food distribution points.<\/p>\n

With this latest subterfuge deal in Armenia actually paving the way for the ambitious, anti-Iran, anti-Russian US\/NATO coalition\u2019s attack plan currently being formulated and mobilized against Iran, its long-term intent is to provide nearby staging areas to attack and weaken both Iran and from its underbelly Russia as well. Zangezur sits as the strategic territorial lynchpin, facilitating US-Azerbaijan\u2019s joint clandestine gateway to subversion in northern Iran, where 15-20 million Turkic Azeris live in Iran\u2019s East Azerbaijan province. Expect Azeris in northern Iran to move toward breakaway status from Tehran as preparation to become the next US\/West juggernaut military offensive launched into Iran.<\/p>\n

Greater Israel Project tentacles are now permanently occupying both southern Syria and southern Lebanon, and the northern Syrian city of Idlib is under NATO Turkish control, and the Damascus government led by US-Israeli proxy terrorist puppet Al Jolani, all are now solidly under US-Israel\u2019s\u00a0expanding control<\/a>. Combine this victory with this latest Zangezur Corridor now ceded to a US private contractor that includes its own private military operating with a\u00a099-year lease<\/a>, and now the groundwork has been laid to provide the US\/Israel\/West\u2019s multi-pronged staging areas established for the West\u2019s next greenlit unprovoked war of aggression launched from multiple north and south directions all at once against Iran. As this current hotbed is in countdown to blow up soon, the century and a half ago masonic plotted incendiary is now in place for the Zionist vs. Islam, West vs. East, World War III Armageddon ready for ignition liftoff, or more accurate, mass human dieoff.<\/p>\n

According to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader advisor on International Affairs,\u00a0Ali Akbar Velayati<\/a>, in an interview with\u00a0Tasnim agency<\/em>\u00a0a couple months ago, Iran had put the kibosh on this Turkish-Azeri \u201cZangezur Corridor\u201d linkage project because it poses too great an existential threat to Tehran\u2019s regional strategic interests:<\/p>\n

Under the guise of creating a corridor that was supposed to connect Nakhichevan with the main territory of Azerbaijan through Armenian lands, in reality, a scenario was being prepared for the division of the region and blocking Iran\u2019s land access to Europe. We realized the essence of what was happening in time and disrupted the implementation of this plan.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As recently as August 4th<\/sup>, Velayati again warned against the West\u2019s \u201cillegitimate objectives in South Caucasus\u201d in hot pursuit of the Zangezur Corridor,<\/strong>\u00a0repeating Iran\u2019s red line firmly drawn in the sand:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I reiterate that any government in or outside the region intending to repeat the failed experience of the past will meet with Iran\u2019s harsh response.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Islamic Republic of Iran, long sharing a common border to the north with Armenia via the narrow 26-mile (42-km) strip of the Zangezur Corridor, fears by strategic malevolent design that it is being taken over by Armenia\u2019s historic sworn genocidal enemies, the Turkic nations Turkey and Azerbaijan, or worse yet, already placed under the \u201cinternational auspices\u201d of the United States. Again, just two weeks ago, Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader\u2019s advisor Ali Akbar\u00a0Velayati spelled it out<\/a>\u00a0in detail:<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s enemies \u2026 are consistently trying to undermine the foundations of this identity in order to damage our national security. In this context, plans such as the Zangezur Corridor are being implemented as a cover for broader geopolitical projects. The main goal is to weaken the axis of resistance, sever Iran\u2019s ties with the Caucasus and establish a land blockade of Iran and Russia is in the south of the region.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Velayati calls the Zangezur deal as a US-Israel geopolitical scheme to undermine Iran\u2019s national security and strategic ties while the US transfers pressure from Ukraine to the Caucasus region. Iran and Russia\u2019s concern for this probable outcome has been present for some time, addressed three years ago in\u00a0an article<\/a>\u00a0by Iran\u2019s\u00a0Gulf International Forum<\/em>\u00a0titled:<\/p>\n

Why Iran Opposes Azerbaijan\u2019s Zangezur Corridor Project<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite religious differences, Armenia\u2019s ancient Christian heritage and Iran\u2019s ancient Persian Islamic heritage with up to\u00a0half a million<\/a>\u00a0Armenians\u00a0living peaceably<\/a>\u00a0over the last four centuries among today\u2019s 90 plus million Iranians, Persians and Armenians have largely maintained harmonious relations. In fact, both Iran\u2019s current President\u00a0Masoud Pezeshkian is Armenian, and so was Iran\u2019s last foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. Unfortunately, Iran\u2019s last foreign minister along with its last president Ebrahim Raisi\u00a0lost their lives in a highly\u00a0suspicious helicopter crash<\/a>\u00a0on May 19th<\/sup>\u00a0last year, flying over northern Iran\u2019s East Azerbaijan Province while returning home from a joint dam project meeting with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on the other side of Iran\u2019s border inside Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

Based on early morning satellite photos, the local sky was reportedly clear, yet all weather service satellite records right after the crash were subsequently\u00a0deleted<\/a>, effectively falsifying records to produce the bogus claim that the helicopter was flying in heavy fog conditions. Not only that, the downed helicopter never made a mayday call and its emergency transponder signal never activated. Additionally, not only was there an abrupt change in weather documents, so was a sudden, mysterious change made in both the helicopter and its return crew, made right after the Iran leaders landed in Azerbaijan. On top of that, the sizeable Iran delegation attending the Azerbaijan event was transported in three helicopters flying in unison across the border back home with the two other aircraft safely returning to Iran without incident.<\/p>\n

Put all these sketchy, conflicting pieces together, along with Israel\u2019s already notorious track record for committing sneaky, deadly decapitation strikes against Iranian leaders (recall Iran\u2019s top nuclear scientists murdered a couple years back, then Israel\u2019s unprovoked surprise attack igniting the \u201c10-Day War\u201d on June 12th<\/sup>\u00a0with airstrikes taking out a couple dozen top Iranian military and political leaders. With apparent assisted collusion by Iran\u2019s backstabbing Muslim neighbor Azerbaijan on May 19th<\/sup>\u00a0last year, with Baku so closely aligned with Israel, the most plausible explanation and conclusion with all these anomalies is that the Jewish State once again assassinated Iran\u2019s top leadership. This sobering reality also explains and justifies why Iran so strongly opposes Armenia\u2019s Zangezur Corridor coming under the Turkic-US-Israeli coalition\u2019s control.<\/p>\n

Growing criticism within Armenia is being leveled against its Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Last month he deployed Armenia\u2019s security forces rounding up alleged coup plotters within the Armenian Apostolic Church. Also within days further arrests were made against opposition leaders in the Dashnaktsutyun party. Apparently Pashinyan has caved in to outside pressures from the United States to undermine the nationalism that has kept Armenia an independent sovereign nation. Now it is seen increasingly to recapitulate to foreign demands and making repeated concessions to Turkey and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

Dashnaktsutyun opposition party leader\u00a0Ishkhan Saghatelyan<\/a>\u00a0has stated recently:<\/p>\n

He [Nikol Pashinyan] talks about learning from history, but if real lessons had been learned, figures like him who oppose national values would not be in power, Karabakh [Artsakh] would not have been occupied, and enemy troops wouldn\u2019t be on Armenian soil. Pashinyan is the last person who should talk about sovereignty. Over the past six years, he has made the country entirely dependent on foreign powers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The day after Azeri President met with Turkish President Erdogan, On June 20th<\/sup>\u00a0for the first time in the modern era, Pashinyan as the leader of Armenia attended a \u201cworking\u201d visit to Istanbul to meet with Erdogan. The Armenian nationalists saw this move as an act of treason, selling out their nation to more powerful foreign interests and, in the process, becoming more like a dictator, not unlike the same leaders in Turkey and Azerbaijan he is acquiescing. At the same time, Pashinyan has virtually severed Armenia\u2019s long-term close alliance with Russia. After three decades as a bilateral member of the Russian Federation led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), in June last year,\u00a0Nikol Pashinyan<\/a>\u00a0told Armenia\u2019s legislators:<\/p>\n

The next logical step will be Armenia\u2019s withdrawal from the CSTO \u2026 When this happens, we will decide for ourselves. Perhaps in a month, in a year, in three years.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Within a month after Pashinyan in February 2024 first announced he was \u201cfreezing\u201d Armenia\u2019s membership in CSTO, music to the US\/NATO ears, it didn\u2019t take long for NATO Secretary General\u00a0Jens Stoltenberg<\/a>\u00a0to rush to Yerevan to further drive the unholy wedge between Armenia and Russia.<\/p>\n

The astute Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman\u00a0Maria Zakharova<\/a>\u00a0prior to Pashinyan swaying to the Western winds had this to say:<\/p>\n

We are well aware that for decades or even centuries, the United States and the collective West have used tactics of treating countries and people as tools. At the same time, hiding behind good intentions. If there have been no such examples in our region, one would probably think that the US and the collective West would not use this tactic to the post-Soviet space.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These latest sobering developments should concern the ten million global population of Armenians, over seven million living in the larger international diaspora outside the Republic of Armenia. In seven years as Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan has destroyed a quarter century of strong alliance with the Russian Federation ever since the 1991 Soviet breakup and Armenia\u2019s independence. Pashinyan has jeopardized the safety of 3 million Armenian citizens, allowing his nation to become the latest US\/West convenient weaponized \u201ctool\u201d as the latest hostile nation on Russia\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n

With over\u00a02 million Armenians<\/a>\u00a0living in Russia and another\u00a01 to 1.5<\/a>\u00a0million Armenians in America, the majority of more than 6 out of the total 10 million Armenians on this planet live in either Armenia, Russia or America. Thus, the reckless, tyrannical actions of puppet Pashinyan should concern every Armenian because his disastrous policies place most Armenians alive today in grave danger, pitting Armenians against each another. The same applies to NATO\/EU\u2019s largest Armenian diaspora of\u00a0650,000<\/a>\u00a0in France as well as the up to\u00a0500,000<\/a>\u00a0Armenians residing in Iran. These five aforementioned nations containing the largest Armenian populations \u2013 Armenia, Russia, US, France and Iran \u2013 comprise over 75% of all Armenians alive today, and now because of Pashinyan all are in the crosshairs of World War III. Puppet leaders of the US\/NATO\/collective West following insanely aggressive, self-destructive diktats of their City of London puppet masters, has placed all humans on our planet never closer to an engineered West vs. East nuclear world war.<\/p>\n

With only 71 miles (114km) separating the Armenian border from the Russian border, and Armenia\u2019s 26 mile Zangezur Corridor directly bordering Iran to the south, Armenia\u2019s geographical proximity to these two strategic Eastern powers as designated enemies, and the West now in economic and geopolitical decline, Pashinyan without support of his citizens has fatalistically chosen the wrong side of history. He has now done what no nation in its right mind does, literally hand over Armenia\u2019s Zangezur Corridor to the United States on a 99-year lease.<\/p>\n

This treasonous disgrace places Armenia and really entire world at alarming risk as the new flashpoint to a West vs. East world war. It renders this small South Caucasus nation extremely vulnerable and now the next prospective Ukraine, set up for sacrificial ruin as another Western stooge used to destabilize both Russia and Iran, both forever targets for villainous US regime change operations. Sadly, Pashinyan has fallen for the West\u2019s predatory geopolitical trap, taking the majority of Armenians on this earth with him as the next bullseye hotspot to be victimized as another expendable incendiary as ground zero for igniting WWIII.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, under constant US\/NATO pressure, pliable Armenia\u2019s policy of rapprochement toward its genocidal Turkic enemies Turkey and Azerbaijan falls in line with the West\u2019s fixated policy of belligerent provocation towards Russia, Iran and China, driving today\u2019s arms race escalation globally while simultaneously establishing another volatile warfront on both Russia\u2019s and Iran\u2019s borders to foment the Third World War. It is the US\/NATO\/City of London\u2019s primary agenda these days for depopulation. On the micro-scale, deploying the controllers\u2019 divide and conquer M.O. wherever it can, this latest chessboard move directly polarizes Armenian populations within Armenia, Russia, the US, France and Iran where three-quarters of all Armenians live. For the world, it creates a new global hotspot on steroids and irreparable division essential to jumpstart yet another theater of war operation for the next Big One, now well in the making.<\/p>\n

Clearly, Nikol Pashinyan is deliberately heading Armenia into such a calamitous danger zone leading to potential ruin, allowing the Armenian Republic to be foolishly duped and swallowed up in the lethal trap at this late hour that it can neither avoid nor overcome an imminently grave outcome. Relinquishing autonomous Armenian control over Zangezur into the \u201cTrump Bridge Transportation Corridor\u201d will prove catastrophic for both Armenia and the entire planet.<\/p>\n

As Trump and Putin minus Zelensky\u00a0agree to meet<\/a>\u00a0in Alaska on August 15th<\/sup>\u00a0to discuss Ukraine and the present state of the world, Trump will no doubt be confronted with this latest Trumpian Zangezur deal. On August 8th<\/sup>, Trump is credited with brokering a deal between longtime adversaries Azerbaijan and Armenia after Azerbaijan earlier this year threatened to take Armenia\u2019s Zangezur Corridor by force. Azeri dictator Ilham Aliyev in 2023 overpowered the Artsakh military to finally grab the long disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave\u00a0by force<\/a>\u00a0in a lightning strike. This August 8th<\/sup>\u00a0agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia is being sold by\u00a0legacy media<\/a>\u00a0to the world as a triumphant breakthrough\u00a0peace agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Until this latest deal, during the first six months of his second term in office, President Trump was the floundering\u00a0pedo-buddy<\/a>\u00a0stuck in Epstein quicksand, a loose cannon paper tiger making threats everywhere on the globe with zero leverage since he and his US neo-conned ZOG lackies proved they can never be trusted. Ultimately, in Ukraine Putin will attain his Special Military Operation\u2019s longstanding objectives \u2013 de-Nazify and demilitarize Ukraine while annexed Crimea, Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhe all stay Russian. Diminished pawn Armenia and its \u201cTrump Bridge\u201d corridor will also no doubt be high on the Trump-Putin itinerary for discussion as yet another potential warfront in the making opens up.<\/p>\n

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