Iran's Regional Transport Diplomacy

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Iran's Regional Transport Diplomacy

The Presidents of Iran and Kazakhstan have officially launched a rail transit link that will boost freight transport between Asia and Europe amid turbulent time in the region. During the ۱۶th Iran-Turkmenistan Joint Economic, Scientific, Commercial, Technical, and Cultural Commission held in October ۲۰۲۱ in Tehran, Iran transport minister and Turkmen foreign minister who chaired the commission signed a comprehensive MoU which included rail transit and road freight. Afterwards in June ۲۰۲۲, the high-ranking transport officials of Iran and Turkmenistan met in Tehran to renew mutual transport ties to ease transit along the corridors in the region. The cooperation of Iran and Turkmenistan will ease transit along East-West and North-South transport corridors, particularly through the new alternative route of China-Kazakhstan-Iran-Europe instead of the previous route which passed through the Russia. In November ۲۰۲۱ during the visit of Iran Minister of Transport and Urban Development, Rostam Ghasemi, with Kyrgyzstan Minister of ...