Comments on: Kazakhstan and Iran, sittin’ in a tree… but, you know, they’re just friends http://registan.net/index.php/2008/09/01/kazakhstan-iran/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 20:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Hancock http://registan.net/index.php/2008/09/01/kazakhstan-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-378234 Michael Hancock Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:00:47 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/09/01/kazakhstan-iran/#comment-378234 I agree totally. I hope that, with a change in both regimes [US and Iran] possible in the future, warmer relations will make for a more stable region. Fingers AND toes crossed! I agree totally. I hope that, with a change in both regimes [US and Iran] possible in the future, warmer relations will make for a more stable region.

Fingers AND toes crossed!

]]> By: Oldschool Boy http://registan.net/index.php/2008/09/01/kazakhstan-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-378233 Oldschool Boy Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:20:06 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/09/01/kazakhstan-iran/#comment-378233 I think Kazakhstan would be strongly interested in good Iran-US relationships. If you take a look at a map you can see that through Caspian Sea borders Iran is only country that separates Kazakhstan from the World Ocean. Totally free business ties with Iran for Kazakhstan would mean that the shortest route to the ocean is established, that there would be no need to use Baku-Ceihan or any of Russian pipelines to transport oil to foreign markets. It would mean that Kazakh ports on Caspian Sea would thrive on free trade with the rest of the World through Iran. There are potentials for beneficial cooperations between these two counries in many areas. However, Nazarbaev is not free to do so because of the US sanctions against Iran and Kazakhstan is still largerly dependent on US as a large investor and a security guarantor. I think Kazakhstan would be strongly interested in good Iran-US relationships. If you take a look at a map you can see that through Caspian Sea borders Iran is only country that separates Kazakhstan from the World Ocean. Totally free business ties with Iran for Kazakhstan would mean that the shortest route to the ocean is established, that there would be no need to use Baku-Ceihan or any of Russian pipelines to transport oil to foreign markets. It would mean that Kazakh ports on Caspian Sea would thrive on free trade with the rest of the World through Iran. There are potentials for beneficial cooperations between these two counries in many areas. However, Nazarbaev is not free to do so because of the US sanctions against Iran and Kazakhstan is still largerly dependent on US as a large investor and a security guarantor.

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