BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 10. Iran’s current
government (in power since August 2024) has successfully restored
significant railway connections with several countries, boosting
regional trade and transit, said Farzaneh Sadegh, Iran’s Minister
of Roads and Urban Development, Trend reports.
Speaking during an event highlighting the ministry’s latest
infrastructure projects, Sadegh cited key rail links, including
China-Iran, Pakistan-Iran-Türkiye, and Türkiye-Iran-Iraq routes, as
examples of the restored connections.
She emphasized that Iranian trains now operating in
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan mark substantial progress
in enhancing regional transit. Furthermore, the minister
underscored the advancement of crucial domestic rail projects,
including the Chabahar-Zahidan, Ardabil-Mianeh, and
Shalamcheh-Basra lines, and noted a remarkable increase of more
than twenty percent in freight transport within Iran’s railway
sector.
Sadegh also revealed that the Iranian Ministry of Roads and
Urban Development has allocated 250 trillion rials (approximately
$195 million) toward its ongoing infrastructure initiatives.
