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

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, ...

Despite its strategic location, Iran’s sanctions exposure and regulatory unreliability have made it difficult to insert itself within the region’s burgeoning trade networks. For most of the past three ...