you may think that no country is eager to have relations with iran because
they have been isolated for many years by the u.s sanctions but this situation is changing for
many reasons in just one month three presidents of the central asian countries visited tehran
and signed tens of contracts to develop ties with this country
why tehran is becoming a trend for neighboring countries let's have a look to know
central asia historically has been a part of persian empire or under its influence until
russian empire became powerful enough to separate it from persia like what happened with caucasus
and also britain's great game separated another part in 19th century since then central asia has
been away from iran's influence though persian footprint is still widespread in the culture and
language of the countries of this region even names of these countries have a persian suffix
which is istan now things seem to be changing as the power balance is shifting all over the
region to the east of europe the isolated iran has been hosting presidents and other high officials
of these countries in recent days one after another amo mali rahman president of tajikistan
sirdar verdi muhammadu president of turkmenistan and kasim takaya president of kazakhstan
visited tehran in less than 30 days and they signed various contracts including
for iranian companies to start construction of roads and buildings and bridges for them
and also to carry out oil and gas swap through iran and so on this is not important just from
the economic point of view but the fact that iran is finally taking this country seriously
and they have reached to the point that they prefer to work with tehran instead of sticking
to the u.s sanctions is more significant but why is it happening and what has changed firstly
the islamic republic of iran has become frustrated with reaching a permanent deal with the united
states over its nuclear program and sanctions so their new government has claimed from its first
day that their priority is to promote ties with neighbors and eastern powers this is why before
this forming permanent ties with the west meant everything for tehran secondly iran has become
a part of some influential non-western blacks in recent years such as eurasian economic union and
also shine high cooperation organization so these blacks also facilitate economic and political
partnership with non-western countries for iran but there is also two notable factors united
states does not want to put more pressure on the oil and gas markets while washington and also
european countries are facing grave consequences of imposing harsh sanctions against moscow because
of the ukraine war us may also consider not bothering iran with these kinds of relations while
there is still some minor hopes for reviving the nuclear deal this is why white house is ignoring
to meddle in the promotion of ties between iran and central asian countries this is why for
example these countries did not think about taking such measures during the trump presidency and
russian factor moscow because of the new political coalitions forming in the region and europe
welcomes iran's more positive prisons in the central asia for kremlin iran is less dangerous
than other actors in central asia like u.s china or turkey and they know that tehran would never do
anything to provoke them it's a historical chance for iran to revive its influence without pressure
or provocation from another power especially the security and military cooperation with tajikistan
which could be effective in confronting isis and also the afghan issue in central asia thanks for
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