TehranIran’s security council backed a Russian-run railway, state agency Mehr reported.
The 162 km Rasht-Astara line is the missing link in the corridor to the Persian Gulf, Mehr says.
Deputy roads minister Houshang Bazvand said the final 37 km of land passed to the Russian company on Wednesday.
Iranian engineers will join the surveys, which Bazvand expects to speed the work.
How each outlet framed it
- Mehr News Agency leans favorable
- frames the Rasht-Astara line as the North-South corridor's cornerstone, tying it to Iranian engineers joining the Russian surveys
Sources: Mehr News Agency