Russia to export to China and India via Iran

Russia will export to China and India via a new route through Iran starting next year, the head of the nation’s Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport said Monday. The road, rail and shipping route, called the International North-South Transport Corridor, will carry goods from Russia down through the Caucasus region and Iran to ports on Iran’s southern coast, where they will be shipped to China and India. This route will provide Russia with an alternate export avenue at a time when the West seeks to constrain it, thereby sustaining Russia’s war economy—thanks to stalwart support from its energy-hungry Asian allies.