Baladi News
Plans to link the railway networks of Iran, Iraq and Syria have been revealed by a source at the Syrian Ministry of Transport.
“Now, the countries are working on the resumption of the project connecting the railways of Syria, Iran and Iraq,” the source told Al-Watan newspaper yesterday.
“[They] are determining the date of the meeting between the representatives of the countries to develop the points of view.”
The strategic project seeks to link Tehran and Baghdad to the ports in Syria’s north-western city of Latakia. Before the war, 97 per cent of construction of the project on the Syrian side was complete but, large tracts of the railways were bombed during the eight-year-war.
Opponents of Iran have spoken of fears of the construction of the land “corridor” from Tehran, through Iraq and Syria, to Hezbollah in Lebanon. They fear the railway route would facilitate the transport of high quality weapons, Revolutionary Guards and Shia soldiers to intervene in regional conflicts.
source: MEMO.