{"id":6603,"date":"2016-07-03T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2016-07-03T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:18:43","slug":"news-on-the-iran-to-herat-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/news-on-the-iran-to-herat-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"News on the Iran to Herat railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some news reports on the  <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/iran-to-herat\/\">railway from Khaf in Iran to Herat in Afghanistan<\/a> have appeared, although I can&#8217;t spot English-language versions. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"fa\" dir=\"rtl\">\u06a9\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0645\u062a\u062f\u0627\u062f \u0631\u0627\u0647 \u0622\u0647\u0646 \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0647 \u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644 \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0632\u0648\u062f\u06cc \u0634\u0631\u0648\u0639 \u0645\u06cc\u200c\u0634\u0648\u062f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lxbF9qO7OE\">https:\/\/t.co\/lxbF9qO7OE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Persian (@bbcpersian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcpersian\/status\/743347802596466688\">June 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Using Google Translate, I <i>think<\/i> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farsnews.com\/newstext.php?nn=13940420000519\">Fars News report about progress with the railway<\/a> says that the 76.8 km from Khaf to the border has been finished. It is suitable for 160 km\/h passenger and 120 km\/h freight trains, and services could start in October[?].<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/persian\/afghanistan\/2016\/06\/160616_k05_iran_afghanistan_railway_will_started_soon\">BBC Persian article<\/a> possibly says that Iran&#8217;s consul general in Herat, Mahmoud Afkhami Rashidi, has said that [construction, track-laying?] work on the Iranian border to Ghurian third section of the railway will resume after Eid al-Fitr [6 July 2016]. The fourth stage of the line will be built by the Afghan[?] government and take the line to an industrial area in Herat[?]. The governments of Afghanistan and Iran have recently held talks about security and technical co-ordination for the construction of the line.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1OmfQGMmin2I6D5s4I2-bSyhgVbY&#038;hl=en\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some news reports on the railway from Khaf in Iran to Herat in Afghanistan have appeared, although I can&#8217;t spot English-language versions. \u06a9\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0645\u062a\u062f\u0627\u062f \u0631\u0627\u0647 \u0622\u0647\u0646 \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0647 \u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644 \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0632\u0648\u062f\u06cc \u0634\u0631\u0648\u0639 \u0645\u06cc\u200c\u0634\u0648\u062f https:\/\/t.co\/lxbF9qO7OE &mdash; BBC Persian (@bbcpersian) June 16, 2016 Using Google Translate, I think the Fars News report about progress with the railway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[23,303,81,85],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-bbc","tag-ghurian","tag-herat","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","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=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6614,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions\/6614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}