Iran plans to commission the Khaf (Iran) – Herat (Afghanistan) railway in six months, Iran’s Deputy Roads and Urban Development Minister, Iranian Railways CEO Mohsen Pour Seyed Aghaie said. The railway will be extended from Herat to the city of Mazari Sharif in Afghanistan. This section is being constructed as part of the project for construction of the Iran-Afghanistan-Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-China railway. Aghaie said that following preliminary discussions, a general agreement was reached to build the railway from Iran to China. „But the problem is that the question of who will finance the construction of the Herat-Mazari-Sharif railway section, located inside Afghanistan, remains unresolved. Therefore, the construction of the railroad is being delayed,”Aghaie added. Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan agreed on the need to construct a railway running through the territories of these countries in July 2012. Iran expressed readiness to finance the Kyrgyz section of the railway.
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