Iranian and Russian officers have mentioned a plan to construct a rail hyperlink between Parsabad, a metropolis on Iran’s border with Azerbaijan, and the Gulf port of Bandar Abbas.
Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, mentioned this after assembly with Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian, the Pattern information company reported. No additional particulars got.
Russia and Iran have been making an attempt since 2005 to develop a transport hall from Russia by way of Azerbaijan to Iran’s Persian Gulf coast to provide Russia extra direct entry to the Indian Ocean.
The important thing to that hyperlink was to have been a railway between the Iranian metropolis of Astara on the border with Azerbaijan and Rasht, northeast of Tehran.
However Iran lacks the funding and technical experience to complete it and would want a serious injection of funds from Russia, in keeping with a report final yr by the Carnegie Politika assume tank.
Pezeshkian issued a common instruction to hurry up the Rasht-Astara line, Pattern reported.
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