iran, russia and china will not allow this to happen any more than the ukies in nato was permitted;

Iran has vowed to block the dividends of a U.S.-backed peace plan on its doorstep, threatening to turn the area into "a graveyard of the mercenaries of Donald Trump."

The warning by a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei came after the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan met at the White House last week to signed a peace treaty that granted America exclusive rights to development a strategic land route known as the "Zangezur corridor."

Iran's Foreign Ministry officially welcomed the peace between its neighbors, but Ali Akbar Velayati told the semi-official Tasnim news agency that Tehran views the corridor—dubbed the "Trump Bridge"—as a serious threat to its national security, as it would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave through Armenian territory along Iran's northern border.

The U.S. State Department and Iran's Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to separately written requests for comment.

Why It Matters

The agreement, signed by Trump alongside Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, grants the United States a 99-year lease on the corridor, which the White House is calling the "Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity."

The Trump Bridge will give American forces direct access to the border area just north of Iran's province of East Azerbaijan, raising security concerns in Tehran. The deal also raises the U.S.'s stake in the South Caucasus, a region long dominated by Russian influence............more.........