{"id":168973,"date":"2015-07-17T23:04:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/irans-sanctions-and-azerbaijans-future\/"},"modified":"2015-07-17T23:04:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:04:21","slug":"irans-sanctions-and-azerbaijans-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/irans-sanctions-and-azerbaijans-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Sanctions and Azerbaijan’s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n After nearly two years of negotiations, this week saw
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\n to lift the sanctions imposed on Iran over its uranium enrichment program. The geopolitical and economic repercussions will be widespread and long-lasting, and for Azerbaijan at least, will require a thorough redrafting of foreign policy.\n<\/p>\n

\n The most immediate concern is the opening of Iran’s
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\n is expected to eventually flood what is currently a buyer’s market. Iran will need about five years to build the modern infrastructure necessary to become a major gas exporter \u2013 meaning that it will reach European markets around
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\n Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP).\n<\/p>\n

\n As its oil reserves have dwindled \u2013 it is now accounts for
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\n of world oil production – Azerbaijan has worked to portray its gas reserves as a vital (and often sole) counterweight to Europe’s dependence on Russian gas. But the imminent entry of competitors such as American, Israel, Iraq, Cyprus, and now Iran into the European market means this argument has never found serious support abroad. As Meydan TV’s
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\n Azerbaijan\u2019s gas resources are important for Europe for one reason: while Russia dictates prices, having an alternative resource is helping Europe to gain an advantage in the negotiations. But both Europe and Russia know very well that Azerbaijan\u2019s relatively small gas reserves won\u2019t change much.
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\n Analysts expect Europe to
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\n 564bcm of natural gas a year by 2020. The most favorable estimates say that Azerbaijan will be able to provide 16bcm, or about 3 percent of the market. Its closest competitors in terms of scale, Israel and Cyprus, will be able to provide at least twice as much.\n<\/p>\n

\n Perhaps incidentally, President Ilham Aliyev chose the day of the announcement of the Iran deal to
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\n in language usually reserved for his more hardline lieutenants. Speaking of the German Bundestag, Aliyev said, \u201cthere is distance in our relations, and we don\u2019t want anything from them. On the contrary they are in need of our gas, contracts, oil and our activity in this region.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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\n whether Europe has any need for Azerbaijani oil and gas at all. Mainstream American think tanks are pushing for
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\n Although Azerbaijan will likely reap
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\n from Iranian gas on its way to Europe, it will hardly match the capital inflows that came with Azerbaijan’s mid-2000’s oil boom. The assumptions that have driven Azerbaijani foreign policy for more than a decade are no longer viable. However, the growing influence of paranoid
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\n indicate that a constructive reorientation of foreign policy is unlikely anytime soon.\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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