evidence: The Zangezur corridor would run through the Syunik province of Armenia, but the Azerbaijan government in Baku wants to have full sovereignty along the route. Iran is opposed to this idea, seeing it as something that would change its own borders, which it does not accept. [...] For three decades, this mountainous territory had been under Armenian control before Azerbaijan, with the help of advanced Turkish and Israeli weaponry, seized it. [...] The foreign policy expert said also that its conflict with the West meant that Russia is now reliant on secure routes through the South Caucasus, with its interest in controlling Armenia’s Syunik province adding to the strategic competition with Iran.