Landlocked Kazakhstan is seeking port access, and Astana is banking on Iran to provide it. On July 8, Kazakhstan signed an agreement to build a logistics and transport terminal at Iran’s largest seaport and sanctions evasion hub, Shahid Rajee Port in Bandar Abbas. Under the terms of the 27-year Build-Operate-Transfer …

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The Trump administration will announce plans to resurrect a five-decade-old pipeline running from Iraq to the Syrian port of Baniyas Iraq, Syria and the US plan to revive a historic 500-mile pipeline to Syria’s Mediterranean coast as part of efforts to reduce Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, senior …