{"id":6307,"date":"2015-10-11T19:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2015-10-11T19:15:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T18:15:27","slug":"iran-to-herat-railway-to-open-by-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/iran-to-herat-railway-to-open-by-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to Herat railway to open by March 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/110897\/Khaf-Harat-railway-soon-to-become-operational\">Mehr News Agency<\/a> reports<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6307-1' id='fnref-6307-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6307)'>1<\/a><\/sup> that Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrud.ir\">Minister for Road &#038; Urban Development<\/a>, Abbas Akhoundi, has announced that the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railways\/iran-to-herat\/\">Khaf &#8211; Herat railway<\/a> will soon become operational&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Akhoundi met Afghanistan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/muda.gov.af\/s\">Minister of Urban Development Affairs<\/a>, Sadat Mansoor Naderi, and said &#8220;the project needs to continue till the railway is connected to Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and China to accomplish the Silk Road railway grid from the south of Iran to China.&#8221; Akhoundi also said Iran was making efforts to organise a summit with Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and China in order to reach agreement on the proposed railway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.trend.az\/iran\/business\/2442646.html\">Trend<\/a> reports that the railway line to Herat will open by March (presumably 2016).<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6307-2' id='fnref-6307-2' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6307)'>2<\/a><\/sup> Although we have heard <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/herat-railway-to-open-by-20-march-2013\/\">&#8220;real soon now&#8221; style opening dates<\/a> for the railway before&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=z9WykD6DXYKE.k5p-E7dFrE1Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-6307'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-6307-1'> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/110897\/Khaf-Harat-railway-soon-to-become-operational\">Khaf-Harat railway soon to become operational<\/a>, Mehr News Agency, Tehran, 11 October 2015 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6307-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-6307-2'> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.trend.az\/iran\/business\/2442646.html\">Iran-Afghanistan railway to be inaugurated by March<\/a>, Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan, 11 October 2015. (Subscription required; I&#8217;ve only see the headline) <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6307-2'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News Agency reports1 that Iran&#8217;s Minister for Road &#038; Urban Development, Abbas Akhoundi, has announced that the &#8220;Khaf &#8211; Herat railway will soon become operational&#8221;. Akhoundi met Afghanistan\u2019s Minister of Urban Development Affairs, Sadat Mansoor Naderi, and said &#8220;the project needs to continue till the railway is connected to Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and China to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6313,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}