The Chair of Iranian Studies at the YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies hosted an international roundtable on new communication routes in the South Caucasus and the position of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The event was co-organized by the YSU Chair of Iranian Studies, the Caucasus Studies Institute at the University of Tehran and the research team working on the project titled "The Impact of Domestic Political Currents of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Its Foreign Policy Towards the South Caucasus (2013-2024): A Case Study of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan" (project code: 25YR-6A021), funded by the Higher Education and Science Committee of Armenia's Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport.
Speakers from YSU included Professor Vardan Voskanyan, Head of the Chair of Iranian Studies; Associate Professor Liana Petrosyan, who leads the research project; and project members Garik Misakyan, Arpine Arushanyan and Nare Gevorgyan.
Speakers from Iran included Professor Ali Kalirad of the University of Tehran and an international partner on the research project; Jafar Khasheh, Head of the university's Caucasus Studies Institute; and Morteza Moghadami, a researcher at the institute and an expert on the Caucasus and Armenia.
Participants examined in detail the prospects for establishing new transport and regional connectivity routes in the South Caucasus, the challenges involved, and the Islamic Republic of Iran's official position and strategic approaches to these developments.
