{"id":1844,"date":"2009-08-24T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2009-08-24T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:50:16","slug":"3bn-needed-for-herat-mazar-i-sharif-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/3bn-needed-for-herat-mazar-i-sharif-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac3bn needed for Herat &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>ECO Urged to Invest in Iran-Afghanistan Railway Project<\/h3>\n<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Minister of Road and Transportation Hamid Behbahani called on the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) to provide Afghanistan with 3 billion Euros in credit to accomplish a railway project linking the country to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To finish Iran-Afghanistan railway project, ECO is needed to provide 3 billion Euros in credit for the construction of a 1,250 km-long railway segment between Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif (in Afghanistan),&#8221; Behbahani said in a ceremony to mark the arrival in Tehran of the first freight train ferrying cargo from Islamabad to Istanbul via Tehran.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\/newstext.php?nn=8806011324\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\/newstext.php?nn=8806011324\">Fars News Agency<\/a> 2009-08-23<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECO Urged to Invest in Iran-Afghanistan Railway Project TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Minister of Road and Transportation Hamid Behbahani called on the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) to provide Afghanistan with 3 billion Euros in credit to accomplish a railway project linking the country to Iran. &#8220;To finish Iran-Afghanistan railway project, ECO is needed to provide 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[57,81,85,114],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-eco","tag-herat","tag-iran","tag-mazar-i-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}