Residents and politicians in Armenia and Azerbaijan are responding with cautious hope after their leaders signed a U.S.

President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House on Friday, where they finalized a peace agreement that would grant the United States exclusive development access to a critical transit corridor in the South Caucasus,

President Donald Trump was in the middle as Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan flanked him on either side. As the two extended their arms in front of Trump to shake hands, the U.S. leader reached up and clasped his hands around theirs.

Iran threatened on Saturday to block a corridor planned in the Caucasus under a regional deal sponsored by U.S. President Donald Trump, Iranian media reported, raising a new question mark over a peace plan hailed as a strategically important shift.

Armenia still must amend its constitution to remove a reference to Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan's ambassador to Britain said.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry also congratulated Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders, as well as Trump. Israeli leaders congratulated US President Donald Trump for brokering peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan in posts onX/Twitter on Saturday.

The planned route, to be called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, resolves a long-standing dispute that had stalled earlier peace talks. The Media Line's intrepid correspondents are in Israel,