Caucasus Has Historically Served as a Strategic Buffer for Iran: Velayati

The Caucasus has historically acted as a strategic buffer for Iran, wrote Ali Akbar Velayati, the international affairs advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran, on the social network X.

According to the senior advisor to the Supreme Leader, the Caucasus has been fulfilling this role since the time of the Persian king Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty. He also emphasized that, according to the works of the Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, Cyrus built fortifications in the Caucasian region to protect Iran from invasions by nomadic tribes, thereby strengthening the region's unchanging position as a defensive frontier.

In an interview with Tasnim on August 9, Velayati rejected the so-called