1148 GMT August 09, 2022
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Mohsen Pakaein
Ex-Iranian envoy to Azerbaijan
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Iran added 319 domestically-made cars and locomotives worth about $34 million to its railroad fleet in a ceremony on Monday.
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The heads of the railways of Iran and Afghanistan held a meeting in Tehran to discuss cooperation and ways for resuming halted joint projects.
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Initial results of an investigation into the Wednesday train derailment in eastern Iran show that high speed and obstruction of the rail had caused the incident which killed 22 people and injured dozens more, said the CEO of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (IRIR).
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Head of Iran’s Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructures Company (CDTIC) said the Zahedan-Chabahar railway project in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan will be completed by March 20, 2024.
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Iran's Ambassador to Baghdad Iraj Masjedi, in his meeting with Iraqi Minister of Transport Nasser Hussein Bandar al-Shibli, discussed the completion of the Shalamcheh-Basra railway.
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Arts & Culture Desk
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The Trans-Iranian Railway is a long route connecting the Caspian Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea in the south (Bandar Torkaman in the northeast to Bandar-e Imam Khomeini in the southwest of Iran).
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Arts & Culture Desk
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Iran plans to renovate 1,500 cars and locomotives to be added to the country’s railway fleet by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2022), announced Roads and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Eslami.
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A bomb blast on Tuesday killed four guards of Herat-Khaf railway and wounded two others in Afghanistan.
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Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami referred to sustainable development as Iran’s strategy in the region, saying Iran is ready to connect Khaf-Herat railway to Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan.
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Iran, Turkey and Pakistan plan to revive a railway line connecting Istanbul to Tehran and Islamabad and ultimately extend it to China, Tokyo-based newsmagazine Nikkei Asia reported.
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Khaf-Herat joint railway project is a great achievement for Afghanistan’s people, said the Afghan minister of commerce and industry, adding by connecting this railway line to Chabahar-Zahedan railroad, southeastern Iran, another window will open for development of trade between Tehran and Kabul.
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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday hailed inauguration of Khaf-Herat railway in an online ceremony with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani saying it is benefiting for both the Iranian and Afghan people.
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