{"id":21780,"date":"2026-06-08T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21780"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:44:49","slug":"afghan-and-iranian-officials-discuss-infrastructure-and-railway-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/06\/08\/afghan-and-iranian-officials-discuss-infrastructure-and-railway-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan and Iranian officials discuss infrastructure and railway projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Afghan and Iranian officials have held talks on major infrastructure initiatives, including railway development and the expansion of transportation corridors between the two countries.<br>According to Afghanistan\u2019s Ministry of Public Works, a delegation led by Deputy Minister for Railways, Mawlavi Mohammad Ishaq Sahibzada, traveled to Iran for discussions with Iranian counterparts on infrastructure projects, railway schemes, and new transit routes.<br>The ministry said the meeting discussed the construction plans, technical specifications and standards, implementation phases, financing structure, estimated costs of the 657-kilometer Herat\u2013Mazar-i-Sharif railway project and the participation of Afghan and Iranian companies.<br>Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas said the two sides also emphasized the importance of further expanding railway and transportation cooperation between Afghanistan and Iran.<br>Haqshenas noted that the Herat\u2013Mazar-i-Sharif railway is considered a key economic corridor for Afghanistan, linking northern provinces while connecting Iran and Turkey with Central Asian countries through Afghan territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Afghan and Iranian officials have held talks on major infrastructure initiatives, including railway development and the expansion of transportation corridors between the two countries.According to Afghanistan\u2019s Ministry of Public Works, a delegation led by Deputy Minister for Railways, Mawlavi Mohammad Ishaq Sahibzada, traveled to Iran for discussions with Iranian counterparts on infrastructure projects, railway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780"}],"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=21780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21782,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780\/revisions\/21782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}