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Sometimes, to hear the voice of the future, we must go where silence speaks louder than anything else.

So here we are, at the end of a road that dissolves into the sea.

That's where our story begins.

The world is like a vast campus, invisible lines shaping the course of our destiny.

Core does like vital arteries, connecting hard lead of the planet.

A maze of ancient roots, carrying tales of power and trade, century after century.

Some places can't be understood just by looking at a map.

You have to walk the breeze the air, listen to the signs hidden in their sign-up.

Iran is one of those places.

I'm Pepe Escobar, geopolitical analyst.

For decades, I followed countless trails where power moves from the west down to the east,

but no land has gripped my mind the way Iran has.

Rooted in history, yet always reaching toward the future.

And I'll end that once again, just might rewrite the rules of the game.

So here I am, searching for something that's been largely overlooked and unheard.

Iran, layers and layers of time.

It's imperative to come to the brain of Iran's decision-making where maps are drawn and pieces in the chessboard are moved.

The Iran is not just the capital of Iran.

It may soon become the capital of a new, erasian approach.

Somewhere between Shanghai and St. Petersburg.

I am a geopolitical analyst.

I am a geopolitical analyst.

I am a geopolitical analyst.

I am a geopolitical analyst.

I'm very well known in the west, in Russia.

Iran is a priceless ancient bridge between east and west.

Around 2,500 years ago, the accompanied empire built a royal road.

A 2,500-kilometer-long road stretching from Sousa to Sartis.

This grand artery symbolized mastery over land routes and facilitated trade between great and biased.

During the Sassanian era, the Silk Road, ages vital lifeline,

rent through the heart of Wales, Iran.

Caravans of silk, spices and precious goods moved along these paths,

carrying with them cultures, ideas and civilizations.

In the Middle Ages, Islamic empires expanded both land and sea routes.

The parts of the Persian Gulf and the sea of Oman became Iran's gateway to the world.

Today, Iran sits at a strategic crossroads between the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf,

and the overland routes of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

It's private to transform the north-south and east-west corridors into powerful interconnected arteries.

Roots that carry not only commerce, but the shifting weight of regional and global geopolitics.

They recognize the new generation when they are like, you know what your work is.

Go to come, go to Svaha.

If you can, go to the Sats, go to the Persian Gulf.

For quite a while, I sense that something crucial was taking shape here.

Something you can't quite see with just your eyes.

So on the sidelines of the festival, I spoke with an Iranian journalist was also attracted to the concept of the roots.

Not one that sees Iran as a destination, but as a connector, redefining its role as a vital link.

I know all this. I want to know the main challenges at the moment.

I was talking to you from TV, but there had been such scenes making it to come down back.

I have taken mucho what I don't think we can just be an international profession.

Is it serious or not?

Yes, sir.

There is no anymore of it coming.

the situation in the Korean society lets you be rid of Iran internally during this day.

I am being dared to want to clarify this.

What is missing from the Iranian point of view in terms of infrastructure?

From the caspian crossing Iran to Bandar Abbas in Chabahar.

What is missing?

I am proud to be here with all my friends and friends.

I am proud to be here with all my friends.

I am proud to be here with all my friends.

I am proud to be here with all my friends.

I am proud to be here with all my friends.

I am proud to be here with all my friends.

All my friends will do my best to be here together and also to be there.

And I am proud of that story which is much bigger.

Because it might pass us the West completely.

They have to up their game, is that it's okay?

They have to up their game, is that it's okay?

They have to come back, but I don't know if it's okay, but it's okay.

They have to come back.

Thank you, Ahmad. There was very good.

I'm a bit sad because it's much more complicated than I thought.

Ali Manam, for sure.

A little later, I was introduced to Dr. Hassan Abidini,

a major in policy and others.

Salam! Salam!

Very nice to meet you.

Thank you. Thank you for receiving me.

I'm a very good man.

I'm a good man.

I'm a good man.

I'm a great man.

I'm a good person.

I can't say anything about him.

I'm a great person.

I'm a good man.

I want to support him.

I want to support him.

I want to support him.

What's missing, what's the major problem for Iran in terms of finishing infrastructure and logistics, from the

to Chabahar in Bandar Abus.

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Moredi, in Echtefawati, Muntarel.

So, OK, example, you have cargo coming from St. Petersburg to Astrakhan, very fast.

So, arrive in Astrakhan, he has to cross the Caspian to the northern Caspian, Iranian port.

Can this be done quickly in one year?

We did a year.

New questions emerge.

Questions that could only be pursued up close.

So, I had to hit a road and see for myself.

Iran was reshaping regional equations.

So, I decided to start my journey from the north, where some of the answers might still be hidden.

Rayle's emerged from the mountains, cutting into the green heart of the north.

From Bunder Abasturraht, this line is part of a much larger project.

The International North South Transportation corridor.

IMSTC.

This is not just a route.

It's a complex chessboard where geopolitics plays out,

connecting Iran and wider Eurasia.

Here, through missed and forests, Iran reaches the Caspian Sea.

The north is way more than a border.

It's a vital gateway.

Iran, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia,

they all come together in one single frame.

Ports like Anzali in Amirabad are Iran's twin arms in the Caspian.

With a combined capacity of over 10 million tons annually,

these ports serve as the lifeline for landlocked countries.

Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, they all watch these lines closely.

Here in Astada, Iran's rail network connects to the Caucasus.

Good travel from St. Petersburg to Bunder Abasturraht in just 20 days,

half the time of the classic Swiss canal route,

another fraction of the cost.

Last year alone, over 12 million tons of cargo across Iran's north and borders.

80% of Caspian Sea trade passes through Iran.

Roots once overlooked have now become the pulse of modern global trade.

The north-south corridor is not just a pathway, it's a battleground.

Iran is no longer just a transit country.

It has become a player, a route designer, an indispensable partner

in shaping the future order of Eurasia.

We are about to get into the Caspian.

This is just a little branch, right?

But then when you get to the Caspian, you see Eurasia in that state.

This is Bunder Anzali.

Overlooking the Caspian Sea, connected to Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan.

The volume of trade with Russia to the sport grows every year.

How these Russian imports will keep coming to Iran if referred,

they certainly navigate in the Caspian from Astrakhan to Bunder Abasturraht.

Or through, let's say, a left of the Caspian highway for us agree with.

That's a very, very long story.

We will address it throughout our long story.

What stands out most in Anzali is the paradox between vast potential

and some serious infrastructure limitations.

Iran's greatest need now is a rail connection to the national and international networks.

Not merely to ease exports, but to secure its geopolitical position on the Eurasian highway.

This port needs expansion.

Number one, very, very important.

Number two, this Iran has enough cargo bolts considering exports from Russia might skyrocket in the near future,

when the corridor will be fully functioning.

Nobody has this answer so far.

To find the answer, I found out someone who has stood at the heart of Iran's border trade for years.

I took part in its었던 whole of story in Asia.

It's two years after it started with that short story.

My father told me he speaks diplomacy with Persian listeners.

Just a few minutes ago, I had lived in Rome for a month.

In 2000, I knew how many months I can go and put myself up.

I mean, it's also something different.

As I gained along, I spent a lot of time in the family of the remaining countries.

I still remember how artistic切imist.

The Taspi-Tetaransi-Tish, the Azash-e-Safadir, the Zarfiyat,

the Khelivujud, the Muzafani-Kemma, the Uzbe-Brik-Sam-Hastim,

and the Incoridor-Mitone-Coridor, the Shomale,

the Brik-Sam-Majim-Sir-Doro-Sahaz, the Kamell-Nist,

the Azarohane-Astor-Abe, the Anzali-Hasker,

and the Azarfiyat-Hanuz, the Kamell-Nashodir,

and Doris-Taba, the Kamell-Nashodir,

and Doris-Taba, and the Azarohane-Astor-Abe,

and the Azarohane-Astor-Abe, the Mahatone-Ham-Hatifahbir,

and the Hannuz, the Zarant-Jomner, the Sideva,

and the Bag, and a Fasalee,

as if the Kamell-Nashodir,

and the Maxtus-Sam-Coridor-Doro-Jomale,

the Shomal-Gro, the Azarohane-Budangro,

the Budangro, the Budangro,

and the Kutah-Budangro,

Imagine how far the fish is off the hook on him.

Well, our story gets much more complicated.

You see this beautiful railway here.

It starts down there in Bunder Abbas in the south.

It crosses a run for over 1,500 kilometers.

And guess what happens?

Let's see around from 5 to 7 kilometers from where we are at the moment.

It stops.

Just like that.

More railway.

And it's crazy because you are very close to the Caspian Sea.

So this is one of the major logistical problems

of the international north-south transportation corridor.

You have to build the rest of the railway, of course,

to a Caspian Sea port.

So how are you going to do it?

And this is one of the major problems at the moment

because it involves building a stretch of the railway.

Who's going to finance it?

A line rising from the heart of the Persian Gulf

pauses at the edge of the Caspian Sea

as if awaiting a momentous decision.

In May 2023, that way it came to an end.

Terran and Moscow, under the weight of Western sanctions,

forge an agreement that is rewriting Eurasia's transport map.

Terran and Moscow have found a new language on the pressure.

Rail, continuous and southbound.

Russia is investing 1.3 billion euros

to build it 162 km long, rushed a start-up rail line.

A crucial link in a chain that starts in Mumbai,

passes through Shabbahar and Bandar Abbas,

and reaches here at a start-up.

When Euron's border meets the Caucasus Railway.

So this is no longer just a railroad project.

It's a new geography of power.

I met with Mr. Mustafa Agdam,

a re-attransport expert and fried-forwarder

for international corridors.

He had a different perspective on the future of these routes.

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And you still need to build this stretch through cash.

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The Russians said they were going to, uh, finance this stretch.

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So that's Pakistan Iran Turkey?

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Yes, sir.

What?

I am the Iran.

I am the Iranian.

I am the Iranian.

Because they all pass through Iran, of course.

Here we have the junction of this.

I would say this complex of roads, coming from southern Russia,

crossing Kazakhstan, crossing Turkmenistan, arriving in North Iran,

and then from North Iran to Tehran, and then joining our corridor where we are,

is actually at this moment over here.

And then we continue all the way to Bandar Abbas,

or later on to Chaba Har as well.

But that's another long story.

And of course, from Bandar Abbas to Mumbai,

it's as we can call it as sort of Indian Ocean Silk Road.

It's cargo straight from Bandar Abbas to Mumbai,

in Vice versa, which is going to be a very, very busy road from now on,

maritime road from now on.

So this gives to all of you an idea of how important

is the corridor?

Even if they choose, let's say, the left-hand side,

road or the right side, road crossing three countries,

and then arriving to Iran.

But it's very important because it's the only

north-south corridor across your region.

Everything else that we have is horizontal.

The road from Tehran to Bandar Abbas is a vital

artery of Iran's straight.

A route that tracks and vehicles carry the nation's good

to ports and be known.

Sacred calm is not just a religious centre.

It's a point through which the arteries of Iran's economy

and trade flow.

The north-south corridor passes through here, of course,

where face and politics are interwoven,

and the transit routes carry not only cargo,

but vital information.

Com is a reminder that Iran cannot be measured by a

economic geography alone.

To understand it, one must listen to his history and culture.

To the meaning cities bring to the roots they lie.

And finally, I arrived in Isfahan,

a diamond of a city where you can hear history echoing

every stone and every brick.

The north-south corridor cuts through the eastern part of

what is in fact the vast province,

passing through the ancient town of Nine,

with roads and rail lines flowing like life-blood

through its landscape.

In Naksha Jahan Square,

where Persian Islamic architecture tells a story of

1,000 years old,

the quiet murmur of prayer

blends with the bustle of the Bazaar,

a living testament to the cultural vitality of a people

who are not easily connecting history with a future.

In the surrounding markets,

I found crafts more not just out of trade,

but of identity and art.

And to come, of course, a few keeps it.

Each telling a story of Iran,

best and present.

This is fantastic.

Where is it from, exactly?

Do you know?

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Saras.

Where is it?

Where is Saras?

Based on the border of Iran and Afghanistan.

North East.

Okay.

North East.

When he kilometers away from the border.

The North South corridor is not just a route for good.

It's a bridge between cultures and commerce,

between past and future,

between tradition and modernity.

Bunder Abbas smells of salt and trade.

This is a deep south,

where the land speaks to the sea.

I passed through fish markets and aging warehouses,

through sunweather faces and so choose.

Drunk toward the very pulse of the court.

Here, in the heart of the city,

the North South corridor reaches its ends.

Well, not really.

Actually, a new beginning.

Right there is Hormuz Island,

also known as the Red Island.

And way, way, way back.

39 kilometers is the straight of Hormuz.

The railway from the Caucasus,

the highway carved through the desert.

The containers that have crossed thousands of kilometers,

the open verge here.

Key question.

Where next?

Which direction?

Which port?

Which horizon?

Bunder Abbas is the corridor's last stop on land,

and within it lies the Shahid Rajayee airport.

He runs strategic terminal on the Persian Gulf.

A place where trade is no longer measuring dollars,

but defined by the geometry of power.

This is where global commerce arrives in Iran,

and departs from Iran as well.

We can say Bunder Abbas is an essential note

of a maritime Silk Road.

And that involves major places.

It involves not only Russia, Iran,

and India as part of the international north-south transportation corridor,

it also involves China.

This is technically also part of China's new Silk Road.

Here, everything, thousands of tons of cargo from China,

India and Central Asia are loaded and unloaded.

This fort funds the backbone of Iran's trade.

And now, welcome to the West Asia Express,

coming in and everything coming and going from West Asia,

where we are.

Bye-bye, Middle East.

Doesn't exist.

This is West Asia.

From Shanghai to Mumbai,

from St. Petersburg to Astrakan,

all routes converge here.

A key artery for strategic goods,

raw materials, industrial equipment,

and economic dreams.

This control tower is the real deal.

It controls everything that's happening inside this gigantic fort complex,

but also in the province of Hormuz,

all the way to the street of Hormuz.

So, let's call it this strategic tower.

That's what it is.

In the new era, the geography of power is drawn

not with armies, but with railways, containers and ports.

Shahid Rajay is not the final stop of the north-south corridor.

It is the beginning of a future way Iran is not just a pass,

but a destination.

So, this is, let's say,

the hot part of the Persian Gulf.

And at the same time, it's very important because it's a trade centre.

It's the key note in Iran for the international north-south transportation court.

So, remind all of you.

Saint-Petersburg, Astracar, the Russian port in the Caspian Sea,

across the Caspian or roads to the right or to the left of the Caspian,

crossing Iran from Iran, arriving here and here.

Vandar Avaz, from here, you can go to Mumbai or you can go to China.

You can go to all parts of Asia from here.

That's why this port complex is so important.

And it's going to be one of the absolute musts in terms

of the international south-south transportation corridor,

being viable within the next few years.

With all the challenges involved, of course.

But there's a strong possibility that the corridor

will be fully operational before the end of this decade.

And, of course, especially maybe in the next two to three years.

So, we are right at the center of the action in West Asia.

It's fascinating because there's a lot of those containers.

They are from a firm called West Asia transportation.

So, the terminology is self-speaks.

Bye-bye to the old Middle East,

which was a configuration by the former British Empire.

The correct terminology to everything that is happening around

is West Asia.

And Iran is the main player in West Asia.

The southern sky was bright, not with light,

but with a hidden possibility.

Down below, where the sea narrows,

and the bass of oil and politics merge,

geography is no longer a map.

It's an equation.

Every day, one fifth of the world's oil flows

silently go through this straight.

But nothing here is truly silent.

The winds from a man carried the hum of tankers

and from above, I watched a spower move across the water.

We were headed to Chabahar, a remote point,

now standing at the center of tomorrow's game.

OK, I'm looking.

I arrived in Chabahar, a strategic port in South Eastern Iran,

where the land sinks into endless blue,

and the future crashes against the shores with everywhere.

Along the coastal road, mountains changed their faces,

as if I had entered another world.

Marsha, silent, and yet alive.

The Martian mountains of Chabahar, from a time long gone.

From a land that seems to have always been a passage,

mountains that could have left from the dreams of a surrealist pain.

To the east of Chabahar lies the port of Betty's.

Yeah, pretty calm, yet alert.

Like the watch tower of the south.

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to accept

the different type of ships

Container ship

and it's a deep water port

Yes, of course.

More than 16 ms.

60 ms.

So very big missiles are able to come here

to burst and have the operation

for cargo discharge cargo load

and then departure to the other place.

So it is correct to define Chabahar

as the maritime capital of Iran.

It's not a hyperbolic.

It's straight to the point.

So Asian shipping lines are already using Chabahar

Some of them.

Yes.

Do you plan?

Maybe not for the moment.

Is there some sort of synergy

between Chabahar and Guadar?

See.

Because I listen and read some stuff

but it's very up in the year.

Yeah.

Yeah, of course.

There is a lot of discussion about the Chabahar and Guadar.

Yeah.

The distance between these two ports are not too much.

Yes.

It's exactly close to each other.

Yes.

But the difference between us and them

is the hinterland.

Yes.

In terms of the international north-south transportation corridor

is there going to be a synergy between Bandar Abbas and Chabahar

and which one would be more important for the corridor?

Bandar Abbas or Chabahar?

I can say if you look to the Iranian to, sorry,

to international north-south transit corridor,

Bandar Abbas and Chabahar are two wings for one bird.

Two wings?

Okay.

Chabahar is more closer to China,

more closer to India.

So it means the ships can reach this place

at least two days sooner than Bandar Abbas.

So there's a two-day difference between Tiananmen Bandar Abbas.

Can we continue our conversation in your office?

Okay, thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

I invite you to come with me over there.

Okay.

We were comparing Chabahar with Guadar.

You told me something.

I would say absolutely essential.

That Chabahar is a provider for the Iranian Interland

and while Guadar is more or less isolated in the Rebiency.

Could you please elaborate?

When you are looking to the map, you will find out the reason

at this far-forwardances with population

around 20% of total population of Iran

are living on that place.

So it means Chabahar has two potential.

The first potential is related to those activities

which is related to the people who are living in that place

in that far-forwardances which I mentioned to you.

And the other thing is close distance to the other countries

like Afganistan and the countries located at the east of the

Caspian Sea.

So this is my view on what's happening when you are comparing

between Chabahar and Guadar.

Can we say at the moment that the international north-south

transportation corridor coming and going through Chabahar

is already on, right?

We have some cargo from Afganistan.

Exporting film here.

Arribal cargo to Afganistan.

Transiting from Chabahar.

And also Uzbekistan, Kassakistan, Turkmenistan.

All these countries are very interested to use the potentials of Chabahar

every day.

Day by day, we will see more and more interest, more more guests

are coming here to see what's happening here.

And then based on that to send their Congress to it.

How long does it take for a cargo ship from Chabahar to Mumbai?

And how long does it take from Chabahar to Shanghai Eastern China?

Okay.

If we are talking about India from Mumbai to Chabahar for days

and to China 12 to 15 days.

And vice versa.

And vice versa.

Again.

So it means Chabahar made Middle East closer to China.

Would you say that Chinese sooner or later will invest directly

in the expansion of Chabahar?

Chinese will be very soon interested on Chabahar.

Because Chabahar is a gateway for Iranian people

and a gateway for the other countries around Iran.

And if they can make some investment here,

they will have better situation to attract more cargo

with less charges.

And this is very interesting because it would mean

an extension of the international north-south transportation world.

Because so far technically, it's Russia Iran India.

But soon it could become Russia Iran Indian China.

And in Iran two corridors are very important.

One of them is international north-south corridor.

Another corridor which is subsidiary of that is East access of Iran.

East access.

Which is connecting Iran today Afghanistan and the other countries

located at the eastern part of the Kashmir region.

So would you say that the overall strategy of positioning Chabahar as essential

for every not only the north-south-south-south-south-south-south-south,

do you think it's the right strategy at the moment?

Right of course.

Chabahar is a gateway, new gateway.

We are as Iranian, we are not only dependent on one port of Banderapas.

We should have alternative for or domestic trade.

For international trade also we have a lot of opportunities

to bring the investment of the other countries

to make some facilities here and enjoy the advantages of that.

So it means a combination between domestic trade and international trade.

Which could be integrated in port of Chabahar.

Chabahar, this is how you build a railway from scratch.

Chabahar to Zahedan is part of the Indian Silk Road.

Because what comes from Mumbai and arrives in Chabahar for instance.

Take the railway to Zahedan.

And you are in the Afghan port.

And from there, every sinking in Gautuf Ghanistan and Gautuf Ghanistan

and Central Asia have the same time.

So the claim that Chabahar is the maritime capital of Iran

is absolutely correct.

So it's a very important thing.

Chabahar is the capital of Iran.

It's absolutely correct.

And it's being built right at this minute.

And in the end, I met with Mr. Arbhabi, a man who spoke of a greater map.

A mapping which Chabahar is not merely a port, but a rising economic pole.

A chain of logistics, production and export.

All springing up from one simple, powerful elements.

Location, location, location.

When is the railway going to be finished?

I saw the beginning over.

When is going to be finished?

Because we had different numbers.

More midwari.

And in Purocek, Poya Nesale, Shamsi.

And Poya Nesale, Iran.

Poya Nesale, Irani.

Kaurish.

Tambish.

Could you explain briefly how does it work?

The free trade zone.

For instance, I am an investor from China.

I want to use your free trade zone.

How does it work?

Free zone of Iran.

Have many facilities for the investors.

For example, for the tax.

We can give investors 20 years free tax.

Free tax.

20 years.

And so, they can bring equipments for the factories by zero.

And so, we can give them land for the build of the factories.

By very easy process.

How do you see Chabahar five years from now?

I'm sure.

After five years, we have many prototypes to explore.

We'll be ready to explore, for example, China, for India, for other countries.

Excellent.

And so, we are trying to get a relation between Iran and Pakistan.

In the Rindan border.

And so, get a relation between Rindan to CPAC.

China and Pakistan, economic corridor.

And here, everything ends.

Now, everything actually begins.

At the edge of Iran.

At the edge of Asia.

Where land speaks with the sea.

And the sea interests the secrets to distant environments.

So, we are at the Iran Pakistan border.

As you can see, no salafi jihad is around.

No CIA.

No MI6.

But they must be around here.

Anyway.

So, this has been an extraordinary trip.

Tracking the international north-south transportation corridor.

All across Iran.

From the Caspian across a century Iran.

All the way here to Bandar Abbas and Chabahar.

And the Iran Pakistani border.

So, you may have now.

Let's say a more firm idea about the strategic importance and the strategic relevance of the international north-south transportation corridor.

The landscape around here in the sea of Amman is absolutely breathtaking.

This is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

And from now on, in Chabahar for instance, which is an enormous building site, the maritime capital of Iran, the potential for expansion.

For trade, for integration, Eurasia integration, Russia, Iran, India, is absolutely limitless.

This is not just a border.

It's a gateway between dreams and power, between today's geopolitics and tomorrow's geopolitics.