An Iranian transportation ministry official says a railway linking the country to neighboring Afghanistan will soon become operational. Abbas Khatibi told the official IRNA news agency on Wednesday that the new railway links theeastern Iranian city of Khaf to Rowzanak, a small town near the Afghan city of Herat. The government has ... prioritized ...

Press TV - A senior Iranian official says a major railway connecting Iran and neighboring Afghanistan will be ready in March as construction of a key cross-border line is nearingcompletion. Abbas Khatibi, a deputy to Irans transportation minister, said on Saturday that the Iran would link up Afghanistan to its railway once construction for the line ...

IRNA Iranian Embassy in Afghanistan issued a statement on Tuesday to detail about the terror attack that killed one Iranian and one Afghan on Sunday. 'On Sunday evening, one Iranian engineer and one Afghan soldier were killed when their car hit a landmine checking the third part of the Khaf-Harat railroad project in Shamtiq, Gourian, Harat Province,...

MNA Deputy head of Iran Railways company said the railroad project to connect Iran to Afghanistan had made significant progress and was 80 per cent through. Hossein Ashoori, Vice President of Operation and International Transportation at Railways of Islamic Republic of Iran (RAI), touched upon connection of rail networks of Iran and Afghanistan ...

By Washington Post NEW DELHI India, Iran and Afghanistan will hold talks on giving greater access to landlocked Afghanistan, a move that could also ease Irans isolation in the region, Indian officials said Saturday. The three countries will meet Sunday to discuss how best to utilize the southeastern Iranian port of Chahbahar and develop road ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran and Afghanistan signed a deal in order to expand mutual cooperation on railway and train Afghans on railroad industry. "We are completely ready to help Afghanistan on railroad by means of all of our potentials," said Managing Director of Iran's Railway Organization Pourseyyed Aghaei in the closing ceremony of a training plan for ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Managing Director of Iranian Railway Hossein Ashouri said the Iran-Afghanistan railroad will be completed by the end of the next Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2015). "It is hoped that Khaf-Harat path would be accomplished by next year, and load and cargo would be transferred via railroad directly," Ashouri told the Iranian ...

Deputy Minister of Road and UrbanDevelopment Ahmad Sadeghi announced the opening of Khaf to Herat railway in this year. Concerning the current condition of this project,Ahmad Sadeghi said that infrastructures have already been completed and we are in the process of tracklaying, Asre-Eqtesadreported. Sadeghialso stated that railway company has ...