In a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, FM Amir-Abdollahian said that "We are determined that the Shalamcheh-Basra railway will become operational as soon as possible."

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, at the Foreign Ministry compound in Tehran on Thursday afternoon.

During the press conference, the top Iranian diplomat said that "We are determined that the Shalamcheh railway to Basra will become operational as soon as possible and that the [Iranain] Minister of Roads will leave for Iraq next week in that regard."

Amir-Abdollahian said that in their meeting the two diplomats emphasized the cooperation with the�Iran-Iraq Judicial�Committee to speed up work on the�prosecution of the perpetrators behind the martyrdom of anti-terror commander Martyr Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi Abu Mahdi Muhandis.

Source: Mehr