By Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
«Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine».
After months of searching through Intelligence Community holdings and files, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is revealing new evidence of longstanding United States government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries.
She is doing this as her final act in office, as she resigned from her post due to her husband’s health after announcing an investigation about this hot topic.
«In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted» Gabbard added in her X video.
Gain of Function (GOF) is a technique for laboratory virus enhancement similar to the principle of uranium enrichment in nuclear power. It has been used in the context of DURC (Dual Use Research Concern) protocols, where “DUAL” stands for dual use: for medical purposes, for vaccines, or for military purposes, for biological weapons.
It has been confirmed by several experts during the depositions before the US Congressional Committees that the infamous virologist Anthony Fauci, (former director of the NIAID), accused of having built the SARS-Cov-2 in the laboratory, used the GOF in his experiments on pathogens conducted in American laboratories and coordinated in those abroad such as in Wuhan and Ukraine.
«These biolabs include labs in Ukraine, which may be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war» the ODNI official Statement pointed out.
The Intelligence Community previously “warned that a US-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage”, despite just Moscow troops denounced this risk to international autorities,,,
The dossier, currently consisting of four slides packed with data, appears to be a political bombshell because it confirms what Russia and Gospa News have reported regarding the Ukraine Biolabs case.
But the content is truly “poor” of data compared to what has already emerged in Russian complaints to the UNODA (United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs) in Geneva and our investigations in the WuhanGates and Ukraine Biolabs series, which revealed a network of speculation on laboratory-enhanced pathogens also used for coronaviruses and, therefore, for SARS-CoV-2…
It is, however, of fundamental importance because it confirms, without any doubt, the existence of experiments on viruses suitable for turning them into American bioweapons…
Gabbard’s declassified dossier therefore contains everything necessary for a frontal attack on the Obama and Biden administrations, which opened 12 of those laboratories in Ukraine under the aegis of the Pentagon in 2012, thanks to former CIA Director Leon Panetta.
This new evidence confirmed also the dangerous researches on many lethal viruses as Ebola and SARS, the responsible for Covid-19 in new SARS-Cov-2 genotype.
But it hasn’t enough details to affirm that almost all the viruses causing recent epidemics were engineered according to research on synthetic and recombinant pathogens constructed by American biolaboratories, as revealed by a USAF dossier.
This thesis was supported by General Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian Troops for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Protection, later killed in an attack by the Ukrainian secret services supported by the intelligence of various NATO countries, primarily the British MI6 counterintelligence but also the American one of the CIA…
The now declassified dossier therefore appears to be the “swan song” of the enterprising director of the ODNI, which coordinates all 18 American federal agencies, and an attempt to debunk theories according to which she was induced to resign precisely after announcing a thorough formal investigation into US biolaboratories…
«Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely, claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America» the ODNI statement adds.
According to Gabbard official note, «many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight».
President Trump understands the serious threat dangerous Gain-of-Function research poses to the American people, which is why he took decisive action on May 25, 2025, signing EO 14292 to end federal funding of Gain-of-Function research around the world, ODNI recalled.
“Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth. ODNI will continue to work closely with partners across the government to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain to end dangerous Gain-of-Function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world,” said DNI Gabbard.
DNI Gabbard issued new guidance to the Intelligence Community directing increased collection on these laboratories and facilities overseas.
«This directive is already providing new details on clinical trials that are underway at these facilities, raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding these supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security» the ODNI official statement concluded.
The last slide on US BioWeapons Defense industries confirmed the most part of the name we have previously revealed in our investigation as Metabiota, a Pentagon and CIA contractor focused on data science and analytics company focused on mitigating global risks from infectious diseases and funded even by Hunter Biden, son of president Joe.
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In the cover image David Wilcock, an American UFO researcher found dead in what has been ruled a suicide.
by Art C. Olivier – writer and producer of Operation Terror on 9/11 CIA Plot
The UFO scientists who are in the news are split into two categories, missing and dead. There’s another way to categorize them, those who were speaking out, and those who had the potential to speak out. Those who spoke out are now deceased, while some of the others are just missing.
One commonality of most of the missing UFO scientists, who had the potential to spill the beans about advanced technology, is that they left their cell phones at home. Had they been allowed to take their phones with them, like most people do, law enforcement could have tracked their movements.
So what happened to these people? Perhaps there are men in black who are in charge of recruiting workers for a super-secret high-technology project, and ensuring that the public never finds out about the project.
They would meet with individuals who could advance this technology, explain what the project is, show them pictures of the facilities, and tell them that they will not have contact with anyone outside of the facility until the project is completed. If they accept the terms, they go missing without a trace, if they don’t accept, they certainly cannot be trusted to keep the project a secret.
The technology that these scientists would have been aware of is quantum locking. College students build miniature flying saucers in their physics labs, as shown in this video below.
VIDEO LEGEND: Quantum Levitation. Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field. Published by the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), representing the science center and museum field worldwide.
As I explained in this interview conducted by James Perloff, there is a significant amount of evidence that shows the aircraft that hit the Twin Towers were quantum locking objects made at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland,
With the release of the UFO files, the government and the media are trying to convince the public that UFOs utilize extraterrestrial technology, when in fact, quantum locking is terrestrial technology that utilizes magnetic fields that are present on earth, and is useless in outer space.
Time will tell if more scientists end up missing or dead, but rest assured that the media and the government will continue treating these cases as mere coincidences.
by Art C. Olivier – writer and producer of Operation Terror on 9/11 CIA Plot – Full biography below
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by RT (former Russia Today)
David Wilcock, a self-styled American UFO researcher and a prominent paranormal content creator and author, has been found dead in what has been ruled a suicide.
The incident happened days after US President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances of nearly a dozen American scientists starting in 2023. The researchers had access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded nuclear and space secrets.
In a statement on Monday, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office reported that at approximately 10:44 AM, a person called 911. The dispatcher suspected that the caller “was experiencing a mental health crisis.
” When deputies reached the residence northeast of the town of Nederland, they encountered an armed man, who “used the weapon on himself” within minutes of their arrival, the statement said.
The male was “pronounced deceased at the scene,” with the officials locating no other person on the property during a subsequent search.
On Wednesday, the Office of the Boulder County Coroner identified the 53-year-old victim as David Wilcock.
He was a vocal member of the so-called disclosure movement, whose adherents believe that the US government is withholding information from the public regarding UFOs and aliens.
Wilcock had hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube and Facebook and authored a number of books, including such bestsellers as ‘The Source Field Investigations’ and ‘The Synchronicity Key’.
Two days before his death, he posted a message on X, cryptically saying that he had “had some very intense stuff going on this weekend.”
“I want you all to know how much I love and appreciate you,” Wilcock wrote.
His suspected suicide came amid increased public scrutiny into the deaths and disappearances of at least ten US scientists and researchers over the past few years. The puzzling circumstances surrounding their cases have spawned online speculation ranging from foreign espionage to a government cover-up of classified UFO research.
Speaking to reporters last Thursday, Trump announced that he had instructed the authorities to look into what he described as “pretty serious stuff.”
Originally published by RT (former Russia Today)
Arthur C. Olivier (born August 24, 1957) is an American politician who was the Libertarian candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 2000 U.S. presidential election as the running mate of presidential candidate Harry Browne.
Olivier served as a councilman (1994–1997), mayor pro tempore (1997–1998) and mayor (1998–1999) of Bellflower, California, a Los Angeles suburb with 77,000 residents.
During his five years on the Bellflower City Council (1994–1999), Olivier privatized the city’s tree trimming, crossing guards, street sweeping and building department. He eliminated the city’s lighting tax assessment and did not allow eminent domain to be exercised while on the council.
Olivier is supportive of the 9/11 truth movement. In 2012, he wrote and produced the thriller film Operation Terror, which depicted a fictionalized version of the September 11 attacks in New York City, 2001.
There is a chapter in Sandy Hook that has a new theory on what hit the Twin Towers.
The movie’s plot centered on a group of American government insiders that organized and assembled a group of people to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In writing Operation Terror, Olivier used dialogue taken from transcripts of the investigation by the 9/11 Commission and based the film’s characters on real-life players in the 9/11 attack.
The film premiered on September 11, 2012, in Los Angeles, and received the Honorable Mention Award at the International Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration and Equality and won the Genre Film: Thriller award at the International Movie Awards.
The film’s director, Paul Cross, was also nominated for Best Director at the Fajr International Film Festival.
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The cover image features virologist Anthony Fauci and CIA official James Erdman.
By Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
It’s May 13th, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, who appears to have performed another small miracle after saving the life of Pope John Paul II in the 1981 assassination attempt on the Vatican.
A senior Central Intelligence Agency operations official appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, chaired by Senator Rand Paul.
Pressed by Chairman Paul, who had already denounced the CIA’s cover-ups of the lab-built SARS-CoV-2 several months ago, he declared that Dr. Anthony Fauci intentionally helped cover up evidence showing that COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese lab collaborating with US-funded scientists, some of whom were involved in gain-of-function and coronavirus research months before the pandemic.
“Dr. Fauci’s role in the cover-up was intentional,” said James E. Erdman III, a senior operations officer for the CIA. Erdman testified during a hearing organized by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Erdman, who served on the federal Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) between March 2025 and April 2026, leading the investigation into the origins of COVID-19, said that this position allowed him to learn of evidence demonstrating that Fauci, the CIA, and other elements of the US intelligence community had actively covered up evidence of a COVID-19 laboratory leak.
This information has been public knowledge in the United States for years.
Because in America, there is no State Secrecy tacitly imposed by the European Union, the various Italian governments, and their complicit media, which, like Fact-Checkers, have banned Gospa News and anyone seriously investigating a pandemic engineered by Fauci and funded by Bill Gates & Co. from social media.
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But Erdman III’s deposition brings together in a disgusting mosaic all the pieces already revealed in our series of Wuhan-Gates investigations. We briefly summarize them for those in a hurry, and refer everyone else to the full article (with automatic translation into Italian) on Gospa News International.
Here are some of the most significant excerpts from the deposition thanks The Defender article (full below).
Erdman also took aim at gain-of-function research. He said scientists from the federal Biological Sciences Experts Group (BSEG) helped overturn a moratorium on funding gain-of-function research that took effect in 2014.
“Several of the BSEG scientists helped Dr. Fauci rewrite definitions of gain-of-function in 2015 to lift a funding pause on dangerous research,” Erdman testified. He said BSEG members “often receive considerable funding from NIAID [the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] and public health agencies.”
Scientists participating in BSEG included Ralph Baric, Ph.D., who worked with Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli, Ph.D., on gain-of-function experiments, Erdman said. Daszak was later “sent to China with the WHO [World Health Organization] to investigate the origins of COVID.”
Erdman said that some BSEG scientists also played a key role in Event 201, a simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak that took place in October 2019, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gates Foundation and World Economic Forum were also involved in the planning of Event 201.
“This was a coronavirus pandemic tabletop exercise curiously similar to the events that played out during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was attended by Dr. Fauci and individuals with IC ties like former [Director of National Intelligence] Avril Haynes,” Erdman said.
A Wall Street Journal investigation last year revealed that in 2021, Haynes opted to brief then-President Joe Biden only on evidence supporting the zoonotic theory.
Today’s hearing came two days after the expiration of a deadline to indict Fauci on charges of perjury for allegedly lying to Congress in 2021. Fauci told Congress at the time that NIH and NIAID had never funded gain-of-function research.
Paul had publicly pushed for Fauci to be indicted. Last year, Biden pre-emptively pardoned Fauci for his official acts dating back to 2014. Last month, a grand jury indicted Dr. David Morens, a former top aide to Fauci, for allegedly using his personal email account to hide communications about the origins of COVID-19.
Hawley said many of his constituents “want to see the perpetrators held to account,” people like Fauci. He urged Congress to “start tightening the funding strings” of federal agencies that are not cooperating with the investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
According to Fox News journalist Jesse Watters, the sensational allegations emerged Wednesday during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.
Watters claims that Fauci’s whistleblower, James Eardman III, stated in court today that the documents were being prepared for release when the CIA intervened and seized them.
“The CIA has 24 hours to return the documents to Tulsi Gabbard’s office, or I will file a motion to issue a subpoena. “These documents were requested by Congress,” Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna declared on her X account.
This entire earthquake occurred in just a few days, right after the Hantavirus emergency, which the US Pentagon’s biolaboratories had been working on for years in Ukraine…
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by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. – originally published on The Defender – Children’s Health Defense association website
A CIA whistleblower today told the U.S. Senate that Dr. Anthony Fauci intentionally helped cover up evidence showing that COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese laboratory that worked with U.S.-funded scientists — some of whom were involved with gain-of-function research and coronaviruses months before the pandemic.
“Dr. Fauci’s role in the cover-up was intentional,” said James E. Erdman III, a senior operations officer for the CIA. Erdman testified during a hearing organized by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Erdman, who worked for the federal Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) between March 2025 and April 2026, leading its investigation into COVID-19’s origins, said this position exposed him to evidence that Fauci, the CIA and other elements of the U.S. intelligence community actively covered up evidence of a COVID-19 lab leak.
He said a “small circle” of scientists was involved in the cover-up and helped promote the theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus had a zoonotic — or natural — origin. Fauci then referred investigators from various U.S. intelligence agencies leading an interagency probe into the virus’s origins to the same scientists, Erdman said.
Erdman said the scientists were linked to gain-of-function research, which increases the virulence or transmissibility of viruses and is used in vaccine development.
Erdman said the cover-up continues today and that CIA whistleblowers have faced retaliation from the agency. When asked if there is still resistance within the CIA to comply with legislation to declassify all COVID-19 origins documents, Erdman responded, “Yes.”
Erdman told lawmakers that public health policy “would have been very different had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve as the foundation for an Emergency Use Authorization mRNA product being mandated by the former administration.”
Paul called the COVID-19 pandemic “one of the most consequential events of our lifetime.” The senator said that “to this day, the American people have never received a full accounting of where it [the virus] came from, what our government knew and why they had to fight their own government to find out.”
Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense, said today’s hearing “broke the COVID-19 spell that has ensnared Congress for over six years.” “Finally, it seems that Congress might start the reckoning that is so desperately needed to account for the deaths and destruction of the COVID-19 years,” Holland said.
Erdman testified today in response to a subpoena the Senate committee issued earlier this month, as part of Paul’s ongoing investigation into COVID-19’s origins.
The CIA did not clear Erdman to testify. No Senate Democrats attended or participated in today’s hearing — an absence Holland called “inexcusable.” Later today, Fox News reported that the CIA was “not happy” with today’s hearing.
Fauci spoke with interagency investigators on several occasions in 2020 and 2021, when the CIA was already strongly considering that the virus may have leaked from a lab, Erdman said. Investigators wanted to speak with Fauci — who provided them with a “curated list of subject matter experts,” Erdman said.
However, the list of experts “coincidentally” mirrored the list of co-authors of a key 2020 Nature Medicine paper, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Fauci and other public health officials and media figures later used the paper to refute the lab-leak theory and discredit its proponents as “conspiracy theorists.”
“There is a narrative that was being generated” by Fauci, Erdman said.
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Last year, the Trump administration launched an investigation to determine whether Fauci and others influenced the paper’s conclusions in exchange for funding.
Erdman testified that in August 2021, Fauci’s intervention helped lead the CIA to adopt a neutral stance on the origin of COVID-19, rather than supporting the lab-leak theory. He said:
“It was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci injecting himself into the IC [intelligence community]. … We have documentation that shows that … the CIA was considering calling this a lab leak [as late as] Aug. 12, 2021. And then, that changed on Aug. 17, 2021. … Unfortunately, because the CIA would not provide us documentation that we asked for, we have no idea why that changed.”
Less than a week later, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fully licensed Pfizer’s mRNA Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine. A day after the FDA issued its approval, the U.S. military mandated the vaccine for its service members.
Erdman said that while he has not found “smoking gun” documentation of Fauci or other officials openly discussing a cover-up, he said there was a “pervasive undercurrent” indicating this in much of the documentation he’s seen.
“From the outset of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci shaped the conclusions,” Paul said. “Dozens of times, he referred to the idea that the pandemic originating in the lab was a conspiracy.”
According to Erdman, Fauci’s views haven’t changed. “He believes it’s natural origin. He still does,” Erdman said.
Erdman testified that CIA officials who spoke out about the possibility of a cover-up have faced repercussions from the agency, ranging from surveillance to retaliation.
“Following the CIA’s COVID relook that culminated in 2023, the CIA retaliated against analysts supporting the lab-leak hypothesis,” Erdman said. “CIA managers retaliated against them for their refusal to agree with management’s middle-of-the-night anonymous rewrite of the analysis, which changed the assessment to a non-call judgment.”
According to Erdman, the CIA began illegally monitoring “the computer and phone usage” of DIG personnel, including “their investigations and contact with whistleblowers.”
“These were Americans being spied upon illegally while executing duties directed by the president and under the authority of the director of national intelligence,” Erdman said. At least one CIA contractor was fired as a result, “one day after meeting with the DIG.”
Erdman said the legislative and executive branches will remain misinformed if “this type of behavior is not addressed.”
Several Republican senators who participated in the hearing agreed with Erdman’s suggestions that various government and intelligence agencies are still involved in efforts to cover up evidence of a COVID-19 lab leak.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who last month led a hearing presenting evidence that the FDA knew of a better method to detect COVID-19 vaccine safety signals — including sudden deaths following vaccination — but concealed it, said he sent multiple agencies “very legitimate oversight requests,” which were mostly ignored.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said that after Congress unanimously passed a bill he sponsored in 2023 requiring the U.S. government to release documentation on COVID-19’s origins, the government “deliberately” withheld most documents.
Rather than providing thousands of pages of documents as requested, Congress received five pages, which were partially redacted. “If that isn’t a cover-up, I don’t know what is,” Hawley said.
Erdman also took aim at gain-of-function research. He said scientists from the federal Biological Sciences Experts Group (BSEG) helped overturn a moratorium on funding gain-of-function research that took effect in 2014.
“Several of the BSEG scientists helped Dr. Fauci rewrite definitions of gain-of-function in 2015 to lift a funding pause on dangerous research,” Erdman testified. He said BSEG members “often receive considerable funding from NIAID [the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] and public health agencies.”
Scientists participating in BSEG included Ralph Baric, Ph.D., who worked with Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli, Ph.D., on gain-of-function experiments, Erdman said. Daszak was later “sent to China with the WHO [World Health Organization] to investigate the origins of COVID.”
Last month, Baric reportedly lost his National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and was placed on leave by his institution, the University of North Carolina. In 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suspended all funding for EcoHealth Alliance because it failed to properly monitor its coronavirus experiments.
Erdman said that some BSEG scientists also played a key role in Event 201, a simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak that took place in October 2019, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gates Foundation and World Economic Forum were also involved in the planning of Event 201.
“This was a coronavirus pandemic tabletop exercise curiously similar to the events that played out during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was attended by Dr. Fauci and individuals with IC ties like former [Director of National Intelligence] Avril Haynes,” Erdman said.
A Wall Street Journal investigation last year revealed that in 2021, Haynes opted to brief then-President Joe Biden only on evidence supporting the zoonotic theory.
Erdman said that as early as May 2020, federal agencies like the U.S. Department of Energy were circulating internal documents suggesting that “all the conditions were present for a lab leak.”
Last year, the Trump administration launched a new version of the government’s official COVID-19 website, presenting evidence supporting the lab-leak theory. The CIA, FBI, Department of Energy, Defense Intelligence Agency, Congress and some foreign intelligence agencies ultimately endorsed the lab-leak theory.
Erdman expressed support for President Donald Trump’s executive order, issued last year, which paused funding for gain-of-function research for 120 days, a period during which a new federal policy on such research was to be developed. The administration has not yet announced a new policy.
“We need a comprehensive review of government-funded life science research and a move back to pre-9/11 definitions of gain-of-function and WMD [weapons of mass destruction] research,” Erdman said. “Oversight must have teeth.”
Today’s hearing came two days after the expiration of a deadline to indict Fauci on charges of perjury for allegedly lying to Congress in 2021. Fauci told Congress at the time that NIH and NIAID had never funded gain-of-function research.
Paul had publicly pushed for Fauci to be indicted. Last year, Biden pre-emptively pardoned Fauci for his official acts dating back to 2014. Last month, a grand jury indicted Dr. David Morens, a former top aide to Fauci, for allegedly using his personal email account to hide communications about the origins of COVID-19.
Paul didn’t address the expiration of the statute of limitations during today’s hearing, but he did suggest that the evidence Erdman presented bolsters the case for the passage of the Risky Research Review Act, legislation he proposed last year.
Hawley said many of his constituents “want to see the perp walks” of figures such as Fauci. He called on Congress “to start pulling purse strings” of federal agencies that are uncooperative with the investigation into COVID-19’s origins.
“It is well past time for us to have [another] Church Committee,” Johnson said, referring to a 1975 U.S. Senate committee that investigated CIA wrongdoing.
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. – originally published on The Defender – Children’s Health Defense association website
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Il Mar Caspio non rappresenta più una rotta secondaria: sta diventando uno dei pilastri silenziosi della risposta eurasiatica all’egemonia statunitense.
Ri-orientamento strategico
Per anni la pressione militare contro l’Iran è stata concepita soprattutto da sud. Le basi statunitensi circondano il Golfo Persico, mentre Israele opera attività di intelligence dall’Azerbaigian e da altre aree vicine. La superiorità navale americana ha trasformato da tempo gli stretti attorno all’Iran in uno strumento di pressione strategica consolidato, capace di influenzare non soltanto i flussi commerciali ma anche la percezione di vulnerabilità dell’apparato difensivo iraniano.
Più l’asse USA-Israele concentra la propria attenzione sul Golfo, più la profondità strategica iraniana si sposta verso nord, oltre il Mar Caspio, uno spazio chiuso che le potenze occidentali non possono controllare facilmente. Questa dinamica non è casuale: riflette una deliberata scelta di diversificazione geopolitica operata da Teheran nel corso dell’ultimo decennio, accelerata dall’intensificarsi delle sanzioni e delle pressioni militari.
Il Caspio assume oggi un’importanza decisiva perché offre a Iran e Russia ciò di cui entrambe hanno urgente bisogno: una via diretta e politicamente sicura, al di fuori dei corridoi terrestri soggetti all’influenza occidentale. Le rotte terrestri attraversano paesi vicini a Washington oppure riluttanti a sfidare le sanzioni secondarie americane. Il Caspio, invece, collega direttamente Mosca e Teheran senza intermediari, garantendo a entrambe le capitali una linea di comunicazione strategica difficile da intercettare o da neutralizzare senza ricorrere a un’escalation militare di vasta portata.
Anche se le navi potrebbero essere colpite da droni o missili, farlo richiederebbe operazioni molto più profonde nel territorio iraniano e comporterebbe il rischio di uno scontro diretto con la Russia. Nel breve periodo, il Caspio garantisce quindi all’Iran una linea di approvvigionamento relativamente sicura. Nel lungo termine, potrebbe rafforzare ulteriormente l’integrazione tra i due paesi e trasformarsi in una rotta fondamentale verso l’Asia occidentale, l’India e altri mercati internazionali attualmente fuori dalla portata delle sanzioni statunitensi.
Stabilire se il Caspio sia un mare o un lago non è una semplice questione terminologica. Se considerato un mare, rientrerebbe nella Convenzione ONU sul diritto del mare (UNCLOS), che assegna a ogni stato 12 miglia nautiche di acque territoriali lasciando il resto alla libera navigazione internazionale. Se invece fosse classificato come lago, i confini dovrebbero essere concordati direttamente tra gli stati rivieraschi, senza alcun coinvolgimento di terze parti. Questa distinzione ha implicazioni profonde tanto sul piano commerciale quanto su quello militare.
Fino al 1991, sulle coste del Caspio si affacciavano solo Iran e Unione Sovietica. Il Trattato russo-persiano del 1921 vietava ad altri paesi di navigarvi. Con il crollo dell’URSS, si aggiunsero Azerbaigian, Kazakistan e Turkmenistan, che contestarono quell’accordo chiedendo nuove trattative ispirate ai principi dell’UNCLOS. Le ex repubbliche sovietiche, Russia inclusa, volevano trattare il Caspio come un mare. L’Iran, invece, preferiva considerarlo un lago, poiché la sua costa relativamente corta gli avrebbe garantito una quota territoriale minore. Inoltre, l’applicazione dell’UNCLOS avrebbe potuto consentire l’ingresso di flotte straniere vicino alle acque iraniane, una prospettiva particolarmente sensibile viste le strette relazioni tra Azerbaigian e Israele.
L’assenza di un accordo mantenne per anni ambiguo lo status legale del Caspio, ostacolando progetti strategici di integrazione regionale, come il gasdotto Trans-Caspico tra Turkmenistan e Azerbaigian. La svolta arrivò nel 2018, quando i cinque stati rivieraschi firmarono la Convenzione sullo status giuridico del Mar Caspio: il bacino venne definito come una categoria unica, né mare né lago. L’accordo attribuì a ciascun paese 15 miglia nautiche di acque territoriali più ulteriori 10 miglia dedicate alla pesca, con le aree restanti da condividere tra gli stati firmatari. Diversamente dall’UNCLOS, il trattato vietò la presenza di forze militari di paesi esterni, consentendo a Teheran di raggiungere l’obiettivo ritenuto prioritario: impedire l’ingresso di marine straniere nel bacino.
Il valore geoeconomico che non si può scartare
Prima dell’inizio della SMO nel febbraio 2022, i rapporti commerciali tra Mosca e Teheran, pur significativi sul piano politico, erano strutturalmente limitati da una serie di vincoli comuni: entrambi i paesi erano esposti a regimi sanzionatori occidentali, ma la Russia manteneva ancora una serie di canali con i mercati europei che la rendevano cauta nei confronti di un’eccessiva vicinanza all’Iran. Il volume degli scambi bilaterali si attestava attorno ai 4 miliardi di dollari annui, un dato modesto rispetto al potenziale delle due economie.
Nel 2013 Mosca aveva promosso il Corridoio Internazionale Nord-Sud (INSTC), una rete di ferrovie, strade e infrastrutture energetiche destinata a collegare la Russia all’Iran attraverso l’Azerbaigian, per poi proseguire verso India e Asia. Tuttavia, fino al 2022, il corridoio restò in larga misura un progetto sulla carta: le rotte terrestri erano ancora percorribili, gli incentivi economici per svilupparlo non erano abbastanza urgenti, e l’Azerbaigian — stato cardine per i transiti terrestri — manteneva equilibri delicati tra Mosca e Occidente.
Il 24 febbraio 2022 segnò una rottura strutturale in questo quadro. Le sanzioni occidentali contro la Russia — le più severe mai adottate contro un’economia di grandi dimensioni — resero urgente per Mosca la ricerca di mercati e partner alternativi. L’Iran, già aduso a operare in un contesto di isolamento internazionale, divenne il partner naturale. Dal canto suo, Teheran comprese che la convergenza con Mosca non era più soltanto una scelta politica ma una necessità economica: la Russia offriva tecnologia, cereali, materie prime industriali e, soprattutto, un mercato alternativo per l’export energetico iraniano.
Il 2022 sancisce pertanto la nascita di una partnership geoeconomica strutturata, con il Caspio come suo asse portante, il porto iraniano di Noshahr accolse la prima nave cargo russa dopo oltre vent’anni e, nello stesso periodo, compagnie marittime russe e iraniane crearono una nuova società congiunta per sviluppare l’INSTC. Nel 2025, il traffico commerciale nel porto di Anzali, principale hub sul Caspio, aumentò del 56% rispetto all’anno precedente: un incremento che non ha precedenti nella storia recente dei due paesi e che testimonia la velocità con cui si sta consolidando questa nuova geografia degli scambi.
Hormuz e la nuova linea rossa
La chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz — o anche soltanto la sua credibile minaccia — rappresenta uno degli scenari più temuti anche dall’asse Russia-Iran.
Con l’escalation militare tra Stati Uniti, Israele e Iran e il successivo blocco imposto da Washington nel Golfo Persico, Teheran si è trovata a dover riorientare rapidamente e in misura massiccia i propri flussi commerciali e di approvvigionamento. Le vie terrestri attraverso Azerbaigian, Pakistan e Turchia sono diventate più rischiose, non solo per ragioni logistiche, ma per le crescenti pressioni politiche esercitate dagli Stati Uniti su questi governi affinché non facilitassero scambi con Teheran in violazione delle sanzioni secondarie. Il Caspio è emerso come unica alternativa concretamente percorribile.
Dal punto di vista geoeconomico, la chiusura di Hormuz ha determinato una serie di effetti strutturali che si estendono ben oltre il perimetro del conflitto immediato. In primo luogo, ha costretto l’Iran a monetizzare la propria posizione geografica settentrionale, valorizzando porti come Anzali, Noshahr e Amirabad come snodi alternativi per l’import-export. In secondo luogo, ha reso la Russia il principale fornitore di beni essenziali per il mercato iraniano: secondo alcune stime, le esportazioni russe verso l’Iran nel settore alimentare sono raddoppiate nel solo primo semestre del 2025, con particolare riguardo ai cereali e ai prodotti derivati, settore in cui Mosca detiene una posizione dominante sui mercati mondiali.
In terzo luogo, la chiusura di Hormuz ha ridefinito il valore strategico del corridoio INSTC. Ciò che fino al 2021 era un progetto di integrazione regionale dal valore prevalentemente simbolico si è trasformato in un’infrastruttura di rilevanza critica, capace di determinare l’esito della tenuta economica iraniana sotto embargo. Mosca ha dunque acquisito una leva di influenza senza precedenti su Teheran: non soltanto come fornitore militare, ma come garante dell’approvvigionamento civile e come partner commerciale di ultima istanza. Questa asimmetria nella dipendenza reciproca costituisce uno degli elementi più significativi della nuova architettura geoeconomica del Caspio.
Con l’escalation militare e la chiusura del Golfo, anche le rotte settentrionali sono diventate oggetto di attenzione militare. Secondo il New York Times, Mosca avrebbe trasferito componenti per droni attraverso il Caspio, rifornendo l’arsenale iraniano in un momento di estrema pressione. Questi droni si sono dimostrati fondamentali sia nel conflitto ucraino sia nelle operazioni iraniane contro basi militari americane in Asia occidentale. Navi russe avrebbero inoltre trasportato beni essenziali, inclusi prodotti alimentari, per attenuare gli effetti del blocco economico sull’Iran.
L’attacco israeliano contro Bandar Anzali nel marzo 2026 ha rappresentato un salto qualitativo nel conflitto. Il porto è il principale hub commerciale e logistico iraniano sul Caspio, strettamente collegato alle rotte russe e alle infrastrutture dell’INSTC. Colpirlo significava non soltanto degradare le capacità operative di Teheran ma anche inviare un segnale diretto a Mosca: la guerra non si sarebbe più fermata alle acque del Golfo. Il messaggio era ricevuto da entrambe le sponde del Caspio.
La portavoce del ministero degli Esteri russo, Maria Zakharova, dichiarò che l’attacco aveva colpito “gli interessi economici della Russia e di altri paesi regionali”, avvertendo che tali azioni rischiavano di trascinare gli stati del Caspio nel conflitto. Il Cremlino espresse forte preoccupazione, mentre Teheran cercò di trasformare l’episodio in una questione di sicurezza regionale, invitando tutti i paesi rivieraschi ad assumere una posizione comune contro la destabilizzazione del bacino. Il messaggio era evidente: una volta raggiunta la costa settentrionale iraniana, la guerra toccava direttamente gli interessi di tutti gli stati che dipendono dalla stabilità del Caspio.
Questo sviluppo ha introdotto de facto una nuova linea rossa nel conflitto: il Caspio non può più essere trattato come spazio neutro o di retrovia. La sua militarizzazione di fatto, ancorché ancora incompiuta, ha trasformato la geopolitica regionale. Kazakistan e Turkmenistan, che condividono il bacino con Russia e Iran, si trovano ora in una posizione di crescente disagio: dipendono dalle infrastrutture commerciali del Caspio e non possono permettersi di essere trascinati in un confronto diretto con le potenze occidentali, ma allo stesso tempo non possono ignorare le pressioni di Mosca e Teheran a solidarizzare con la causa della sicurezza regionale.
Prospettive di lungo termine
Anche dopo la fine del conflitto armato, il Caspio continuerà a essere strategico sia per l’Iran sia per la Russia. Già da anni Mosca vedeva nell’INSTC un modo per raggiungere l’Oceano Indiano aggirando l’Europa. Oggi, tra sanzioni occidentali e crescente competizione geopolitica, quel progetto ha assunto un peso ben superiore alle aspettative iniziali. Se in futuro le sanzioni dovessero diminuire e l’India ridurre la propria dipendenza dall’Occidente, questo corridoio potrebbe diventare una delle infrastrutture portanti di un ordine commerciale multipolare.
Sul piano energetico, il Caspio offre ulteriori opportunità. Il bacino stesso è ricco di idrocarburi: le riserve offshore del Kazakistan e dell’Azerbaigian hanno già attirato investimenti internazionali significativi. Un sistema integrato di infrastrutture energetiche che connettesse le risorse del Caspio con il mercato indiano, passando per l’Iran, trasformerebbe la regione in un polo energetico di prima grandezza. Mosca potrebbe fungere da garante politico e finanziario di tale sistema, consolidando la propria influenza in un’area in cui la presenza occidentale è strutturalmente limitata dalla Convenzione del 2018.
La Russia otterrebbe un accesso più diretto all’Oceano Indiano, mentre l’Iran assumerebbe un ruolo centrale nei commerci eurasiatici, riducendo la capacità degli Stati Uniti di isolare economicamente entrambi i paesi attraverso il controllo marittimo e finanziario. Questa visione non è meramente speculativa: le infrastrutture già realizzate o in via di completamento lungo l’INSTC — tra cui la ferrovia Iran-Russia che utilizza il traghetto ferroviario sul Caspio tra i porti di Astrakhan e Anzali — mostrano che esiste una concreta volontà politica e capacità operativa di trasformare questa visione in realtà.
Per anni il Caspio è rimasto sottovalutato, soprattutto finché le rotte terrestri sembravano sufficienti e il suo status legale restava indefinito, ma con il progressivo avvicinamento tra Mosca e Teheran in un contesto internazionale sempre più ostile, il Caspio non rappresenta più una via secondaria: sta diventando uno dei pilastri silenziosi della risposta eurasiatica all’egemonia statunitense. La sua rilevanza geoeconomica, amplificata dalla chiusura di Hormuz e dalla cristallizzazione di nuove linee rosse militari, potrebbe ridefinire in modo permanente le mappe del commercio internazionale e della proiezione di potenza nel XXI secolo molto più di quanto ci immaginiamo.
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