IRAN NEED FOR CHABAHAR 1

 Financial loss to UAE

 Strategic vulnerability of
UAE

Case of conflict

Continuity of operations

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 HISTORY 2

 Modern History

1970
• Declared municipality
• PP started by Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi

1974-comprehensive plan

1979-Islamic revolution

Wharf & Breakwater

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 HISTORY 3

 Modern History

1979 revolution
• Foreign companies left

• Iranian companies took over

• Berth & Breakwater finished

• Eastern Axis Development

• Regional development tool

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 HISTORY 4

 Modern History

1981-executive operation

Iran-Iraq war
• Role of port realised

1992
• Chabahar FTIZ
• Encouraged immigration

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 STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE 5

 Cross junction

Sea cargo shipping

Oil trade routes

Joining major regions
• Central Asia
• South Asia
• Middle East

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 HISTORY 6

 Earliest History

First attack-Portuguese

Control till 1031 A.H.

British, entered region in
17th century

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 STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE 7

 Chabahar offers

Entrance to Indian Ocean
• >100,000 ships navigate

• 70% of world’s petroleum

trade passes

• 65% of raw material

• 31% gas transfers

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 STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE 8

 Reduced transportation
cost of goods
 Distant from Straits of
Hormuz
 Hormuz shut down
 Unaffected Trade &
commercial activities

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 IRAN NEED FOR CHABAHAR 9

 Iran’s biggest weakness


Absence of deep sea ports
 Port Bandar Abbas

1 lac ton cargo ships
 Shipping via 250,000 ton
vessels

First offloading in UAE

Sent on smaller ships to dock
in Iran
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 INDIAN INVESTMENT 10

 2003

India & Iran agreed on
development

No progress-US sanctions
 2012

Chinese company took
over Gwadar

India joined construction
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