About the Russia-Iran trade corridor

The Russian and Iranian governments are investing up to $25 billion to implement the North-South Transport Corridor. The functioning of the new route will significantly facilitate the delivery of Russian goods to world markets, primarily Asia.

The transcontinental route runs from Eastern Europe to the Indian Ocean, is 3,000 kilometers long, and is effectively protected from outside influence. Many Iranian merchant ships, including those under sanctions, already sail along the new route on the Caspian Sea.

▪️What prompted the creation of the new route?

Economic pressure from the West on Russia and Iran has prompted the leaders of both countries to create a separate corridor that targets Asia's growing economies and is independent of Western influence.

The new route promises enormous benefits for both Russia and Iran if successfully implemented. Transit across the Caspian and Iran would save thousands of kilometers, as opposed to the Mediterranean, and effectively offset sanctions pressures on both countries.

▪️Economics of the project

Energy and agricultural products currently account for the bulk of goods supplied via the North-South corridor. Iranian companies are the third largest importers of Russian grain. And the range of supplied goods is constantly growing.

It has already announced the supply of turbines, polymer products, medical equipment, and car parts. Russia supplies nuclear fuel and equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Yes, there are some problems. For example, occasional traffic jams in the passage of ships through the Volga-Don Canal because of the narrow sections of the highway. However, the problem is already being solved: the Russian side is planning to invest $1 billion to increase the permeability of the water transit hub.

🔻 However, the development of a project of this scale will not go unnoticed by potential victims of the organization of the new corridor. What could be the problem?

The conflict in Ukraine has been used primarily to completely blockade and isolate Russia from the outside world, as well as to weaken European economies and redirect financial flows from Europe to the US.

Developing cooperation between Iran and Russia and the emergence of out-of-control trade communications could seriously threaten Western economic hegemony, led by the US, in the long term.

In the long run, the transport corridor could serve as a precedent for similar actions for other countries worldwide to pursue independent policies.

🔻Prospects.

The North-South corridor, if implemented, would allow Russian companies to largely compensate for the break in commercial ties with Europe and circumvent some of the sanctions.

Using the old routes is now impossible: Western countries fully control the main sea lanes through restrictions on port calls and ship and cargo insurance. And traffic via landlines is quite challenging to track and manage.

Therefore, in the current circumstances, Russia's natural turn to the East by merging with Iran is a logical solution.

🔻 However, creating a new transport route is fraught with risks and costs. Firstly, because of the potential financial costs and time to build the infrastructure.

In addition, the successful functioning of the North-South depends primarily on whether Asian, Middle Eastern, and African countries will join the "sanctions" route of Russia and Iran. And the US and its allies will make every effort to disrupt the route's implementation process.

Against the backdrop of the overall protracted conflict in Ukraine, there will be attempts to destabilize the situation in Iran and Transcaucasia, as well as to accelerate the implementation of the Zangezur corridor project, which is essentially a competitive transcontinental transit line, but in this case, controlled by the West.


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On the situation in Brazil by the start of 9 January.

1. A state of emergency is declared in the Brazilian capital until 30 January. Various citizens' rights will be restricted in accordance with the law on emergencies.

2. Brazilian President Lula da Silva announces the start of an intervention of federal troops in the capital to suppress an insurgency.

3. Argentina and Chile formally offer Brazil an offer to send police special forces to the capital to help the Brazilian police suppress the riots.

4. Brazilian authorities promise to bring those responsible for the pogroms to the harshest possible accountability.

5. Venezuelan President Maduro calls the attempted coup in Brazil a neo-fascist insurgency.

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Turkish president confirms willingness to send grain through his territory to African countries

📝 "Mr. Putin says, 'We are willing to give grain for free, and you send it to be developing countries in Africa. We answer that we are ready to take the grain, process it into flour, and then send it to African countries," Erdogan said.

The Turkish leader said that now up to 46 percent of products are exported from Ukrainian ports to European countries rather than to needy states.

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Today, Kiev's "ghosts" on two Mi-8s were tasked to work on the positions of the DNR's 9th regiment near Avdeevka.
However, the crews did not try their luck and preferred not to enter our air defense zone.
The Ukrainian helicopter pilots decided to shoot at the first positions they encountered. These were the positions of the 110th AFU brigade near Avdeevka, at which the Mi-8s fired unguided rockets. The "friendly fire" resulted in two dead and five wounded in the 110th AFU brigade.

Advice to Ukrainian soldiers: if you see a helicopter approaching, do not hesitate to shoot, especially if it bears Ukrainian aviation identification marks. The AFU pilots pose no less of a threat to the Ukrainian army than the Russian Air Force.


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It turns out that the Secretary of Security of the Distrito Federal (the state where Brasilia is located, analogue to DC), which is responsible for the police forces, is in the US

The plot thickens...

Source: https://noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/juliana-dal-piva/2023/01/08/ex-ministro-da-justica-de-bolsonaro-seguranca-do-df-nos-eua-anderson-torres.htm

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Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and as usual, the AFU has no losses) just a bunch of rubbish 200x and one 300x in 20sec.

They were sponsored, as usual, by the Berserkers of the Wagner PMC.

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There is anxiety in Ukraine's regions

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📹 3rd Brigade's UAVs destroy enemy personnel

Operators of the 3rd Brigade's strike UAVs have managed to achieve several accurate hits on enemy manpower. Ukrainian fighters suffered casualties.


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Destroyed AFU armored vehicles in the village of Blagodatnoye near Soledar

Sources from the pro-Ukrainian segment identified an APC-80 and a BMP-1.

A Ukrainian soldier published the footage.

This soldier is somehow convinced that only Russian equipment can be hit.


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He is convinced because it's a proven fact that AFU has no losses. Those graveyards are filled with people dying from boredom.

Brazilian security forces storm government buildings with APCs - not even tear-gas bombs are stopping demonstrators, while a state of emergency has been declared in the country

The situation in Brazil is getting worse, with the country's army involved in dispersing supporters of former president Bolsonaro. Protesters still occupy the Congress building and the presidential palace from which Lula, elected by the people, was urgently evacuated. The Brazilian police, together with the army, are brutally suppressing the protests, using military equipment and seeking an immediate end to what is happening.

Demonstrators who have seized several government buildings leave insulting inscriptions on the walls of the incumbent president, vandalize, and do not intend to stop the unrest. World leaders are already actively calling what is happening an "attack on democracy" and are backing Lula in calling for the protesters to stop the protests. According to the latest information, Lulu has declared a state of emergency until the end of the month due to the unrest and has ordered federal military and law enforcement forces to deal with the protests.


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