{"id":4135,"date":"2011-07-07T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2011-07-07T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:00:21","slug":"iran-herat-line-will-play-important-role-in-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/iran-herat-line-will-play-important-role-in-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran &#8211; Herat line will play important role in economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The great project of <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/iran-to-herat\/\">Khaf-Herat railway<\/a> &#8211; operation of which has also been commenced &#8211; will create a significant development in transit and connecting Afghanistan with regional and extra-regional (Europe) countries. Its connection to the railway of Central Asia, Turkey and Europe via Iran and also its connection to Iran&#8217;s nationwide railways network &#8211; which will stretch from Bandar Abbas to Afghanistan &#8211; can play an important role in economic growth and development of Afghanistan,&#8221; the foreign ministry official [Mohsen Pakaein, Chief of Afghanistan Headquarter at the Iranian Foreign Ministry] said.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\/newstext.php?nn=9004130740\">FM Official Underlines Iran&#8217;s Growing Aid to Afghanistan<\/a>, Fars News Agency, 2011-07-04<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Presumably operation means &#8220;construction&#8221;, rather than train operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The great project of Khaf-Herat railway &#8211; operation of which has also been commenced &#8211; will create a significant development in transit and connecting Afghanistan with regional and extra-regional (Europe) countries. Its connection to the railway of Central Asia, Turkey and Europe via Iran and also its connection to Iran&#8217;s nationwide railways network &#8211; which [&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":[81,85],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-herat","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","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=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}