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There have been on and off proposals to dig a channel from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf. This map shows the 2 proposed routes through Iran. The Soviets were very interested because their only other access point to warm seas was controlled by Turkey, a member of NATO. So what if they had built it some time in the 1960s?
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