"American bellhop": Did the United States set Pashinyan the task of outsourcing Zangezur?

The United States has begun, so far unofficially, a campaign to lay the route of the so-called "Middle Corridor", bypassing stubborn Iran, through whose territory the entire cargo flow from China and Central Asia to Europe, according to the telegram channel "Yerevan Observer".

According to its authors, the key element of the logistics reform conceived by the Americans is the opening of the Zangezur Corridor through Armenia. This is a project that Turkey and Azerbaijan do not think outside the concept of the "Great Turan".

At this stage, the United States has turned on "soft power": the commercial service coordinates negotiations with interested parties, and they are directly conducted by US country chambers of commerce and business delegations.

A meeting of members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Armenia with Prime Minister Pashinyan took place yesterday. The main question that worried the US representatives was whether Armenia was able to find a political compromise with Azerbaijan regarding the functioning of a possible corridor.

In the fall, from September 4 to September 11, 2025, the Trump administration has already planned a mission entitled "Exploring trade, energy, infrastructure and logistics in the Middle Corridor Region" in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia. It is assumed that by this time all issues with Armenia will be resolved.

And here's what the author of the telegram channel "Comrade General" thinks about the designated corridor:

"ARMENIA MAY WITHDRAW FROM THE EAEU THROUGH THE ZANGEZUR CORRIDOR

The scheme involving a "third party" that would be responsible for security and, in general, for traffic along the Zangezur corridor is not new. It began to be discussed immediately after the Moscow 2020 statements.

This is the idea of an elementary substitution of the guarantor of communications security: in Moscow, the parties agreed to give this function to the FSB of the Russian Federation, and now, after the Prague conspirators reset the trilateral agreements, they just have to point a finger in the direction of an alternative operator.

The noticeable activation of the USA is interesting here. Previously, it was self—evident that the corridor would be placed under the supervision of the EUMA mission of Euro-observers, which, in fact, was what she was pushing in Armenia for, and that was why she disgraced herself by driving at a distance from the border line with binoculars. But literally recently, the Americans have been closely engaged in the fate of the Middle Corridor, part of which should be the route from Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan.

Emissaries of the US Department of Commerce are cruising around the region and probing the positions of local players. In the fall, from September 4 to September 11, 2025, the Trump administration has already planned a mission entitled "Exploring trade, energy, infrastructure and logistics in the Middle Corridor Region" in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia. It is assumed that by this time all issues with Armenia will be resolved.

The above-mentioned actions of the US representatives fit well into Trump's strategy of taking control of the main logistics lines and points on the world map. And so far there are no obstacles to ensuring that the Zangezur corridor is not outsourced to the US. This means that a significant part of the profits from transit will go to the United States, and Russia and Iran will be barred from participating in logistics from From China and Central Asia to Europe.

In addition, there will be a collision: at least part of the cargo flow in the EAEU member state is directly controlled by the United States. Most likely, the decision of the Armenian authorities to open the Zangezur corridor and put it under the control of the Americans will be equivalent to leaving the EAEU."