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In recent years the Caucasus country has become a magnet for Iranian students, business owners, and dissidents. But now many report they’re not being allowed to enter.

Ashgabat has pursued a notably distinct line in its engagements with the Taliban. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Iran and Georgia considered as alternatives.

Beneath the veneer of optimism in Iran, there is suspicion about China’s reliability as a partner.

The remarks earned the country’s senior Islamic official a rebuke from a senior adviser to Turkey’s president and a smear campaign in Azerbaijani pro-government media.

Iranians have been flooding into Armenia to get COVID vaccines, causing Tehran to complain and Yerevan to tighten the rules.

The election of a hardliner could augur a more security-oriented approach by Tehran toward Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The roads for sea access seem to run through China.

Iran stands to be one of the winners of the new regional transportation map.

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Tehran’s foreign minister has made a tour of the region, where Russia and Turkey have become the dominant outside powers since the autumn war, leaving little room for Iran.

Turkey’s president appears to be positioning himself as a protector of all Turks, including Azerbaijani Turks in Iran.

The distant war may play a role in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Iran sees that to safeguard its own interests, it needs a more pro-active South Caucasus policy.

A facile and naïve plan being discussed in Washington risks backfiring on Iran’s minority Christians.

The longer the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict drags on, the chances rise that Iran will play a more assertive role.

Tehran summoned the Tajik ambassador to account for accusations of supporting terrorism.

Don’t look to would-be regional powers to fill the global leadership vacuum.

Baku reacted sharply to videos, circulated in social media, of Iranian fuel trucks on what it considers to be its illegally occupied territory.

Armenia went farther than most of Iran’s neighbors, closing its border for two weeks. Azerbaijan, meanwhile, was the only country to have not closed its border with Iran at all.

Baku has offered to host international soccer matches while its neighbor to the south has been deemed too unsafe.

Iranians are one of the largest groups of immigrants in Georgia, but have come under increasing pressure in their new home.

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have varying relationships with the two feuding countries, but all have something to lose if the conflict turns hot.

Turkmenistan is now in the unenviable position of abutting two global hotspots. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have taken relatively pro-Tehran lines in the new crisis, while Georgia is sticking close by Washington.