You are making general assumption here. I am affiliated with no political party. Why does everything revolve around politics? Politicians and their lies gain no merit in my book.
The scenario is complete and utter non-sense. It only exists in minds still stuck in the old mindset of the Soviet Empire. A road network between the North Caucasus and Iran would be an utter disaster to maintain and all for the purpose of arms transfers. It would tie down thousand of Russian forces for years to supress the Georgian people alone let alone any others nations in the way.
The supply route to Iran is via the Caspian Sea port to Caspian Sea port. There is also flight routes down the Caspian sea straight into Iran. Russia with its strategic airlift and civil transport aircraft can fly in all the arms and troops it wanted into Iran. It needs no other supply route.
For those that believed in a huge build up of Russian forces before the invasion.
‘US military surprised by speed, timing of Russia military action’
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gj_jyRnqBYekXz2MyszBj6k_ZMtw
‘The US defense official said about 8,000 to 10,000 Russian troops have moved into South Ossetia. They also have flown SU-25, SU-24, SU-27 and TU-22 fighters and bombers during the campaign.
But the official said there was no obvious buildup of Russian forces along the border that signaled an intention to invade.
“Once it did happen they were able to get the forces quickly and it was just a matter of taking the roads in. So it’s not as though they were building up forces on the border, waiting,” the official said.’
Er, you’re probably not aware that the Russians had also been conducting war games in this same area. That means that they already had their forces (legitimately) in place. We were also conducting wargames there, but we withdrew most of ours, while they waited until we were gone to strike.
I was in Europe during the start of this, and even the European press mentioned disturbances in the area. It never got reported here, of course.
Russian 58th Army was approaching the Roki tunnel on August 4th.
I post it here on the 15th, from original source BBC Monitoring via TOL (Czech) on Aug 6th.