India must insert itself into the fray of the Iran war before the diplomatic space is occupied by others, and leveraging the economics of Chabahar port and the INSTC is the best way to do it.

The Trans-Afghan Railway stands as a transformative project for Eurasian trade, representing a strategic corridor that bypasses traditional chokepoints and redefines connectivity from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean.

The newly announced Russia-Iran strategic partnership codifies and expands the longstanding trend of warming bilateral relations, but it’s not quite a game-changer in the security sphere.

Long delayed and ever controversial, the INSTC is a ‘sanctions free’ trade corridor that aims to recalibrate Eurasian trade flows. This backgrounder examines the interests and geopolitics surrounding the project.

Exploring geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics driving the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC).