Iran has turned to alternative trade to bypass the US blockade along the Strait of Hormuz, making use of northern sea ports, trucking through land borders and sending cargo through a rail system bound ...

The Caspian Sea serves as the "ideal place for sanction evasion and military transfers," Nicole Grajewski, a professor specializing in Iran and Russia at Sciences Po in Paris told the NYT.

Donald Trump has mocked Iran's navy, saying US and Israeli strikes sent it to the bottom. But Iran has another navy that the US can't touch. It's stationed on Iran's northern coast, on the Caspian Sea ...

The landlocked body of water has taken on new significance, with Russia shipping military and commercial goods to bolster Tehran's ability to withstand the US assault ...

The Caspian Sea has enabled Iran and Russia to supply each other with weapons and trade goods despite western sanctions.

Energy and trade on the Caspian Sea remain very important for the region’s, and even the world’s, growth and prosperity. The Caspian region, a vital geopolitical crossroads and emerging trade artery, ...

FOR MANY living on Kazakhstan’s coast, it was obvious long ago. The Caspian Sea is drying up. The world’s largest inland body of water has dropped by two metres since the mid-1990s, shrinking by ...

Kazakhstan, a non-OPEC oil producer part of the OPEC+ agreement, will consider building an oil pipeline in the Caspian Sea, Russian news agency Interfax reported on Thursday, quoting Kazakhstan’s ...

The Caspian Sea is a unique and irreplaceable natural treasure. Protecting it means holding polluters accountable, and that requires transparency. The fate of the Caspian Sea hangs in the balance. A ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part of ...