Over the past decade, analysts have increasingly viewed Iranian transit routes as Central Asia’s most promising path to the sea.

As Iran’s energy problems grow, the Islamic Republic can no longer rely on its geography alone to attract investment from Central Asia.

The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, a Washington think tank, has launched an initiative to promote the emergence of a trade-oriented group of states in greater Central Asia that, ...

Iran’s ban on food exports and the disruption of trade corridors are hitting the landlocked economies of Central Asia at a vulnerable moment.