Iran’s Railway Set to Join Afghanistan

Date: 30 January 2019 - 20:59

News ID: ۶۲۶۷۹

TABRIZ (Dispatches) – Iran’s Deputy Minister of Road and Urban Development Kheirollah Khademi has said that the country’s railway is under construction to join Afghanistan as a linking railway between the two countries.

Speaking to reporters in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan, Khademi said that the railway linking northeastern city of Khaf to Herat in Afghanistan will be a 207 kilometers long project.

He said that the construction project of the railway has progressed well.

Some 76 km of this railway is in the Iranian soil, the official said, adding that Iran is also tasked to implement 62 km of the railway in Afghanistan, the substructure operation of which has ended.

Afghan government is responsible for implementing the remaining 69 km of the project, he said.