As Azerbaijan Republic has imposed strict regulations for Iranian businesspersons, Iran is exporting apple to Russia through Armenian border, according to a private sector activist.
Sadreddin Niavarani, a board member of Iran’s Union of Fruit Exporters, said that trade ways should not be blocked and therefore if one way is blocked, the businesspersons will find another way to continue their businesses.
It seems that transit problems with Azerbaijan are not likely to be solved soon, he said, noting that “we have to focus on the Arminian borders so not to let all trade ways close.”
Iran is scheduled to participate in the completion of the Tatev road in Armenia which is supposed to be an alternative for the Goris-Kapan road to connect Iran to Russia and Europe.
Kheirollah Khademi, the managing director of an Iranian road construction company went to Yerevan on October 4 to inspect the project.
Khademi, who is also Deputy Minister of Road and Urban Development, went to the Armenian capital at the head of a technical and engineering committee to consider the way Iran can participate in the completion project of the road.
Baku claims that some 20 kilometers of the 400km-long Goris-Kapan road from Iran’s Norduz border crossing to Yerevan is part of Azerbaijan’s soil.
The country has imposed strict regulations on Iranian trucks on their way to the Armenian capital over the past one month and a half, forcing them to pay $130 tolls.