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Iran constructing 5,000 km railway

Iranian Minister of Road and Transportation Hamid Behbahani says nearly 5,000 kilometers of rail lines are currently under construction across the country.

“All government efforts are aimed at the immediate completion of the country’s highway and railway projects,” Behbahani told reporters on Monday.

Earlier in January, Iran had announced China’s interest in participating in the construction of eight railroad projects with a total length of about 5,000 kilometers in the Islamic Republic.

The projects included the Tehran-Mashhad 900-kilometer railway line, the 410-kilometer Tehran-Qom-Esfahan railway line, and the 370-kilometer Qazvin-Rasht-Anzali-Astara railway line.

The Iranian official overseeing the projects, Massoud Rahnama, estimated that the projects would cost about USD 12 billion.

Iranian officials have announced future plans to expand the railroad westward to Iraq and ultimately to Syria.

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