{"id":1645,"date":"2009-04-05T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2009-04-05T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:00:11","slug":"german-firms-to-use-herat-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/german-firms-to-use-herat-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"German firms to use Herat railway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A German firm is reported to be negotiating to use the future railway from Iran to Herat to suply NATO.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www5.irna.ir\/En\/View\/FullStory\/?NewsId=414634&#038;idLanguage=3\">German Army spokesman confirms negotiations with Iranian Pvt Firms<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Berlin, April 2, IRNA \u2013 A spokesman of German Army here Wednesday confirmed in an interview with IRNA representatives of Iranian private firms negotiated with Germans regarding transferring some non-military facilities for German forces situated in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity said, \u201cThe German sides negotiating with Iran are representatives of private firms that provide foodstuff and fuel for the German forces serving at NATO units in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThese companies are after finding alternative routs for Pakistan to forward those goods to Afghanistan thorough it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nAccording to him, those companies have considered using the Chabahar-Zaranj road, or the <strong>Tehran-Harat railroad <\/strong>to transfer their logistical, non-military facilities to Afghanistan.<br \/>\n<cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www5.irna.ir\/En\/View\/FullStory\/?NewsId=414634&#038;idLanguage=3\">IRNA<\/a> 2009-04-02<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German firm is reported to be negotiating to use the future railway from Iran to Herat to suply NATO. German Army spokesman confirms negotiations with Iranian Pvt Firms Berlin, April 2, IRNA \u2013 A spokesman of German Army here Wednesday confirmed in an interview with IRNA representatives of Iranian private firms negotiated with Germans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,71,81,85,125],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-bundeswehr","tag-germany","tag-herat","tag-iran","tag-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}