Strikes on Iran Force Tashkent to Bet on Risky Afghan Corridor

The American and Israeli attacks on Iran to “obliterate” its nuclear program have hit another target: Central Asia’s opportunity to use Iran’s transport links to trade with the wider world. The American and Israeli attacks made an impression in Central Asia as immediately afterwards Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev “ordered a review of foreign trade and transport routes, emphasizing the need to redirect cargo flows to safer ports amid instability in the Middle East,” changes that could raise logistics…