TRIPP is a Ground Operation Against Iran, Ambassador Says
Armenia is artificially put into a situation where it will become part of a structure created against Iran.
Ambassador Dziunik Aghajanian makes a stark assessment of TRIPP’s strategic purpose, moving beyond surface-level connectivity rhetoric to argue it serves as infrastructure for a broader U.S.-led military strategy targeting Iran. She describes Armenia as ‘artificially put into this situation’ where it becomes part of an anti-Iran structure against its interests and security. This framing directly contradicts Civil Contract claims that TRIPP poses no danger to Iran or Armenia.
Aghajanian’s analysis connects TRIPP to the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed by Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, viewing both as pieces of a coordinated U.S. strategy to encircle and eventually attack Iran. She references how these neighboring countries surround Iran geographically and could provide the ‘manpower’ the U.S. lacks for ground operations. Armenia’s position in this calculation is precarious: the country sits on the border with Iran, making it both strategically valuable and dangerously exposed to Iranian retaliation or regional escalation.
The stakes are existential. Aghajanian emphasizes that Armenia’s irresponsible government leadership is committing the country to this project without public debate or transparency about its true military-strategic dimensions. Unlike ordinary infrastructure projects, TRIPP is being implemented through secret agreements with undisclosed terms, suggesting policymakers understand the public would reject it if they knew its actual purpose.
Transcript
Dziunik Aghajanian: regretfully, TRIPP is part of this project and Armenia is artificially put into this situation when It will become part of the structure that is being created against Iran. So I hope that situation would develop to a different direction and we would somehow escape being targeted as a result of the irresponsible actions from our government. But I think the plan is to have this TRIPP, or as the Turkish-Azerbaijan side calls it, Zangezur Corridor, as part of the ground attack tactics that is being developed right now by the U.S.