{"id":3336,"date":"2010-11-17T19:39:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2010-11-17T19:39:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:39:37","slug":"not-viable-economically-or-technically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/not-viable-economically-or-technically\/","title":{"rendered":"“Not viable, economically or technically”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A somewhat pessimistic view…<\/p>\n

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Iran-Afghanistan railway ‘on agenda’ <\/h3>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday that the construction of a railway between the Iranian city of Khaf and the Afghan city of Herat was being discussed, according to the Tehran-based Press TV.<\/p>\n

….<\/p>\n

Tehran faces many difficulties in extending this railway farther than Herat, said Zhou Rong, an Islamabad-based researcher on Central and South Asian issues.<\/p>\n

“Afghanistan is still at war, and if this railway is extended to Tajikistan, it must run through the Pashtun areas controlled by the anti-Iran Taliban,” Zhou said. “The security costs would be very high.”<\/p>\n

It’s no more than a “political will” to build a railway to link Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Zhou said, adding that the idea is “not viable, economically or technically.”<\/p>\n

Source: Global Times<\/a>, 2010-11-17<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A somewhat pessimistic view… Iran-Afghanistan railway ‘on agenda’ Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday that the construction of a railway between the Iranian city of Khaf and the Afghan city of Herat was being discussed, according to the Tehran-based Press TV. …. Tehran faces many difficulties in extending this railway farther than Herat, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[72,81,85],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-global-times","tag-herat","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","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=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}