{"id":17398,"date":"2025-12-25T06:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=17398"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:18:22","slug":"after-iran-russia-shows-interest-in-building-a-railway-through-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/12\/25\/after-iran-russia-shows-interest-in-building-a-railway-through-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"After Iran, Russia shows interest in building a railway through Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Russian media have reported that Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk stated the country is interested in constructing a railway through Afghanistan, and discussions have commenced regarding this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overchuk emphasized the importance of establishing additional connections to southern countries, noting that such developments would positively impact Russia&#8217;s economic and commercial interests, particularly in the transportation sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted that a railway passing through Afghanistan could further connect Russia with southern regions and create new strategic grounds for regional connectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This statement comes following earlier news from Jabbar Ali Zakeri, the executive director of Iran&#8217;s railway authority, who mentioned that their agenda includes a new strategic railway plan to connect Iran with China through Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Russian media have reported that Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk stated the country is interested in constructing a railway through Afghanistan, and discussions have commenced regarding this project. Overchuk emphasized the importance of establishing additional connections to southern countries, noting that such developments would positively impact Russia&#8217;s economic and commercial interests, particularly in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17400,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17398\/revisions\/17400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}