{"id":10291,"date":"2026-04-07T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/07\/kabul-tehran-discuss-khaf-herat-railway-expansion\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:30:21","slug":"kabul-tehran-discuss-khaf-herat-railway-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/07\/kabul-tehran-discuss-khaf-herat-railway-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul and Tehran Discuss Expansion of Khaf-Herat Railway Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Public Works announced that Mohammad Isa Thani, the minister of this ministry, met in Kabul with Alireza Beikdeli, the acting ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They discussed the development of economic and trade relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the meeting focused on expanding cooperation in railway projects, particularly increasing transit via the Khaf-Herat railway route. The Khaf-Herat railway line is considered one of the crucial links connecting Afghanistan to the regional rail network and can facilitate both exports and imports.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides also exchanged views on providing greater ease in commercial transit between Afghanistan and Iran. Facilitating the transfer of commercial goods was identified as a key topic during the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the published information, the meeting also emphasized continuing joint cooperation in the repair and reconstruction of infrastructure projects, including railways, roads, and bridges. The Ministry of Public Works did not provide further details on any potential agreements reached during this meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul and Tehran discuss expanding the Khaf-Herat railway and enhancing trade transit to boost economic ties and infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}