{"id":24298,"date":"2026-10-20T05:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/iran-tajikistan-economic-regional-cooperation-energy-corridor\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:51:11","slug":"iran-tajikistan-economic-regional-cooperation-energy-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/iran-tajikistan-economic-regional-cooperation-energy-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Tajikistan Stress Expansion of Economic and Regional Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Reza Aref, Iran&#8217;s first vice president, met with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and stressed the expansion of economic, cultural and regional cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming the Tajik president&#8217;s proposal to create the South Pars-Afghanistan-Tajikistan energy corridor, Aref described the plan as positive and constructive, and said Iran wants to expand trilateral cooperation with Afghanistan and Tajikistan, adding that there is considerable potential to develop these relations.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the two sides also stressed cooperation in trade, transit, energy and developments in Afghanistan within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and called for the creation of an alliance for Persian-speaking countries and regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran and Tajikistan call for expanded economic, cultural and regional cooperation, including trade, energy and a proposed energy corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24298","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=24298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}