Russia accelerates railway construction to Iran

Russia to accelerate Railway’s construction in Iran that will accelerate construction of railway on Iran’s territory .The most important for Russia is a railway connection between Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran. This is a line connecting Kazvin-Resht-Astara, which is 375km long. This will be a South-North transport corridor. 205 km section has already been constructed. According to preliminary estimation it will serve 1, 4 million passengers and 5-7 million tones of cargo annually.