Iran’s Supreme National Security Council endorses agreement on Rasht-Astara railway

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Iran's Supreme National Security Council has endorsed an agreement concerning the Rasht–Astara railway, a key route in the planned corridor linking Iran and Russia. Iran says the final 37-kilometer land section has been transferred to a Russian company for surveys and preparatory fieldwork.

The remaining 37 kilometers of land along the route were transferred to the Russian company, and thus the entire route has now been handed over for the necessary surveys and fieldwork, Iranian Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development and Director General of Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructures Company Houshang Bazvand said