Iran-Iraq-Syria joint projects

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Iran-Iraq-Syria railway line planned

News ID: 220176
Published: 0249 GMT August 20, 2018


Iran-Iraq-Syria railway line planned

A new railway project is due to link Iran, Iraq and Syria.
The Arabic-language al-Thawra newspaper quoted informed sources in Syria's Transportation Ministry as saying on Monday that a railway line is due to connect Iran to Syria.

They added that Iraq is also due to participate in the plan as the railway will start from Shalamcheh in Iran and extend to Syria via Iraq's port city of Basra.

The sources said that there is also another plan to build a port in al-Hamidiyeh in Tartous in western Syria, boost jobs in the ports and shipping industries and facilitate transportation and trade between Iran and Syria.

Syrian Transportation Minister Ali Hamoud had earlier said that his country seeks to construct international routes which pass through different parts of Syria and the Silk Road.

Last week, Iranian and Syrian officials in a meeting in Damascus reviewed ways to implement the agreements signed between the two countries.

During the meeting in the Syrian capital last Tuesday, the two sides underlined the need to put into effect the economic and trade agreements already concluded between Iran and Syria.

The participants of the meeting also called for broadening of customs cooperation, specially reducing the period of customs clearance to facilitate the arrival of goods as soon as possible and to reduce the costs.

The meeting also focused on enhancing cooperation between the two countries in the field of investment.
http://www.iran-daily.com/News/220176.html?catid=3&title=Iran-Iraq-Syria-railway-line-planned

 

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News ID: 220286
Published: 1047 GMT August 24, 2018


Iran-Syria-Iraq scientific cooperation conference opens in Mashhad

Science & Technology Desk
The first International Conference on Promotion of Scientific and Regional Cooperation on Food and Agricultural Sciences between Iran, Syria and Iraq opened in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province, on Friday.

A total of 330 experts and individuals involved in the field of science as well as food and agriculture industries from Iran, Iraq and Syria are attending the event, said the organizer of the conference, Qadir Rajabzadeh, IRNA reported.

In addition, 425 articles focusing on agricultural, environmental and food industry issues have been submitted to the the secretariat of the conference, he added.

Rajabzadeh listed the main topics for discussion at the conference as modern food preservation methods, modern processing methods in food industries, organic food products, packaging in food industries, herbal and agro-ecological products, veterinary medicine and livestock sciences, agro-meteorology, environment pollution and clean and modern technologies.

He said production of foodstuff is an issue which is common among all countries, adding Iran, Syria and Iraq share environmental concerns such as ‌having vast arid regions.

“In case these [common] problems are resolved it would be in Iran’s interest.”

Rajabzadeh noted that among the issue to be discussed on the sidelines of the event are expanding cooperation in joint research projects, exchanging students for attending post graduate courses, holding long-term and short-term educational courses and workshops in cooperation with Iraq and Syria.

He said on the first day of the two-day conference a number of studies and articles will be presented and on the second day, workshops will be held.

On Saturday, Rajabzadeh said, the 19th International Exhibition of Food and Food Processing (i food) will open as part of the event.
http://www.iran-daily.com/News/220286.html?catid=3&title=220286

 

[Persian Gulf 1906]

nice, we should co-operate on better water management and technological development (iran is far ahead of technology but very far behind on water management/technology/irrigation systems)

 

[SubWater]

Iran’s Exports to Syria on the Rise

Iran’s exports to Syria have been on the rise since the 2014-15 fiscal year–the lowest ebb of $103.013 million over the last 10 years.

The highest level of exports during the period under review was registered in March 2010-11 when Iran exported $524.48 million worth of goods to Syria.

Latest statistics released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration confirm that the rising trend in Iran’s exports to Syria is continuing, as 15,214 tons of commodities worth $156.75 million were exported during the seven months to Oct. 22, registering an increase of 11.82% and 16.31% in volume and value compared with last year’s corresponding period.

Iran mainly exports chemicals, pipes and profiles, electronic parts, pharmaceuticals, auto parts, baby formula, faucets and organic compounds to Syria.

Iran’s imports from Syria, on the other hand, are meager, standing at an average of $23 million per annum over the 10-year period under review.

Syria mainly exports olive, olive oil, herbs, apparel, yarn and fabrics and steam turbine parts to Iran.

In a telephone conversation with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic Republic will continue to stand by the Syrian nation and government, and is ready to participle in the reconstruction projects of the war-torn country.

His comments came after armed forces in Syria and Iraq recently managed to flush IS militants out of their last strongholds in both countries. Backed by popular groups and Iranian military advisors, the two countries declared their full victory over the notorious and brutal terrorist group.

The recent recapture of the two cities of Abu Kamal in Syria and Rawa in Iraq marked the end of the IS reign of terror, which started in 2014 with the group making vast territorial gains in a lightning offensive and establishing its self-proclaimed “caliphate” in the Iraqi city of Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqah.

The presidents of the three guarantors of Syria peace process, namely Iran, Russia and Turkey, met in the Russian city of Sochi last week, calling for a national dialogue in Syria for creating stability and security in the country.

Rouhani’s expression of readiness to help the reconstruction of Syria has been repeatedly echoed by other Iranian officials.

“Iranian organizations, firms and provincial commerce chambers are able to meet Syria’s business needs and help the country implement its reconstruction projects,” the deputy head of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, Hossein Selahvarzi, said in a meeting with Syrian Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade Mohammad Samer al-Khalil in the Syrian capital Damascus back in August.

The Iranian trade official urged the Syrian minister to facilitate free trade between Iran and Syria, and appoint a representative to follow related affairs.

Iran and Syria signed an agreement in Damascus in May to enhance economic cooperation.

Earlier in January, Iran signed major economic contracts with Syria in what Tehran and Damascus hailed as “a new page” in economic ties.

Five memorandums of understanding were signed during a visit by Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis to Tehran, including for Iran to operate a mobile phone service in Syria and phosphate mining.

Tehran and Damascus also signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in a phosphate mine in Syria’s al-Sharqiya.

Syria is among the world’s largest exporters of rock phosphate, a raw material used in the production of phosphatic fertilizers, although the war has marred its ability to mine and market the commodity.

The country agreed to give Iran 5,000 hectares of land for farming and 1,000 hectares for setting up oil and gas terminals. A deal was also signed on providing lands for animal husbandry.

Syria is increasingly indebted to Iran financially: Tehran opened a $3.5 billion credit line in 2013 and extended it by $1 billion in 2015, which economists say has helped keep the Syrian economy remain afloat.

Tehran has already shown interest in helping Syria rebuild its roads, airports, power stations and ports.

Iranian firms are already involved in a series of electricity projects worth $660 million in Syria.

Iran aims to export electricity to Syria and create the biggest power network in the Muslim world by hooking up Iran’s national grid with those of Iraq and Lebanon.

Syria’s GDP contracted last year by just 4% year-on-year, compared with a 36.5% YOY decline in 2013.
https://financialtribune.com/articl...syria-on-the-rise?utm_campaign=more-like-this

 

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Export of Iran gas to Europe possible via Syria coasts - official
28 June 2018 10:36 (UTC+04:00)
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By Trend

Iran can export its gas to Europe through the coasts of Syria, the former director of National Iranian Gas Exporting Company and an official with Iran Chamber of Commerce said.

"Iran can export its gas to the Mediterranean Sea and Europe through the coasts of Syria and by bypassing Turkey," Nosratollah Seifi told Trend on June 25.

He added that Iran will have 45,000 km of gas pipeline with a capacity to transfer 1,100 million cubic meters of natural gas by 2025.

"Currently, Iran has laid 36,000 km of gas pipeline which can pump 800 million cubic meters of gas".

He added that 95 percent of Iran is under gas coverage with 25 million residential shares.

On June 20, the managing director of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company said the 9th Iran Gas Trunkline (IGAT -9) can pave the way for the country’s export of natural gas to Europe once completed.

"IGAT-9 is a 1,900-kilometer prospective pipeline that will stretch from the southern city of Asalouyeh in Bushehr Province through Ahvaz, Dehgolan and eventually Bazargan," Hassan Montazer-Torbati said.

Saying that IGAT-9 will transfer millions of cubic meters of gas per day from South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf to western and northwestern regions.

He added that the trunkline will be able to pump gas to Iraq, Turkey and later Europe.

The routes toward Turkey and the Black Sea will be the main export routes for Iran to export gas to Europe, Montazer-Torbati further said.

IGAT -9 has reportedly made 70 percent physical progress and will become operational by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21).

The gas will be transferred from Dehgolan town, Kurdistan Province, to the city of Miandoab in West of Azarbaijan Province.
https://www.azernews.az/region/134050.html

 

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Great prosperity await Syria - Iraq - Iran in opening borders for brotherly nations

 

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This topic is for discussions about future of Iran-Iraq and Syria economy, military and culture cooperation.

Iran-Iraq-Syria railway line planned

News ID: 220176
Published: 0249 GMT August 20, 2018


Iran-Iraq-Syria railway line planned

A new railway project is due to link Iran, Iraq and Syria.
The Arabic-language al-Thawra newspaper quoted informed sources in Syria's Transportation Ministry as saying on Monday that a railway line is due to connect Iran to Syria.

They added that Iraq is also due to participate in the plan as the railway will start from Shalamcheh in Iran and extend to Syria via Iraq's port city of Basra.

The sources said that there is also another plan to build a port in al-Hamidiyeh in Tartous in western Syria, boost jobs in the ports and shipping industries and facilitate transportation and trade between Iran and Syria.

Syrian Transportation Minister Ali Hamoud had earlier said that his country seeks to construct international routes which pass through different parts of Syria and the Silk Road.

Last week, Iranian and Syrian officials in a meeting in Damascus reviewed ways to implement the agreements signed between the two countries.

During the meeting in the Syrian capital last Tuesday, the two sides underlined the need to put into effect the economic and trade agreements already concluded between Iran and Syria.

The participants of the meeting also called for broadening of customs cooperation, specially reducing the period of customs clearance to facilitate the arrival of goods as soon as possible and to reduce the costs.

The meeting also focused on enhancing cooperation between the two countries in the field of investment.
http://www.iran-daily.com/News/220176.html?catid=3&title=Iran-Iraq-Syria-railway-line-planned

I hope it is a standardised gauge one which is compatible with Pakistani and Chinese railways?

 

[Malik Alashter]

News ID: 220286
Published: 1047 GMT August 24, 2018


Iran-Syria-Iraq scientific cooperation conference opens in Mashhad

Science & Technology Desk
The first International Conference on Promotion of Scientific and Regional Cooperation on Food and Agricultural Sciences between Iran, Syria and Iraq opened in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province, on Friday.

A total of 330 experts and individuals involved in the field of science as well as food and agriculture industries from Iran, Iraq and Syria are attending the event, said the organizer of the conference, Qadir Rajabzadeh, IRNA reported.

In addition, 425 articles focusing on agricultural, environmental and food industry issues have been submitted to the the secretariat of the conference, he added.

Rajabzadeh listed the main topics for discussion at the conference as modern food preservation methods, modern processing methods in food industries, organic food products, packaging in food industries, herbal and agro-ecological products, veterinary medicine and livestock sciences, agro-meteorology, environment pollution and clean and modern technologies.

He said production of foodstuff is an issue which is common among all countries, adding Iran, Syria and Iraq share environmental concerns such as ‌having vast arid regions.

“In case these [common] problems are resolved it would be in Iran’s interest.”

Rajabzadeh noted that among the issue to be discussed on the sidelines of the event are expanding cooperation in joint research projects, exchanging students for attending post graduate courses, holding long-term and short-term educational courses and workshops in cooperation with Iraq and Syria.

He said on the first day of the two-day conference a number of studies and articles will be presented and on the second day, workshops will be held.

On Saturday, Rajabzadeh said, the 19th International Exhibition of Food and Food Processing (i food) will open as part of the event.
http://www.iran-daily.com/News/220286.html?catid=3&title=220286

So people from two Arabic speaking countries attending this conference yet no Arabic word on the poster?

 

[Aramagedon]

Great news.

20 hours from Tehran in middle of Iran to Damascus.

 

[pin gu]

@2800

railways and achaemenid era ?

great news by the way

 

[Aramagedon]

@2800

railways and achaemenid era ?

great news by the way

Long live Achaemeneid empire.

 

[Hack-Hook]

I hope it is a standardised gauge one which is compatible with Pakistani and Chinese railways?

Since when Pakistan use a standard Gauge ?
China use Standard Gauge, Iran use Standard Gauge .Pakistan and India rail road because England want to mess with the region transport system uses non standard gauge.

blue is standard Gauge , The light Green is were British empire messed with Asia , the Dark Green is where USSR messed with Region

 

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Official: Iran To Start Constructing Iran-Iraq Railway Line
by Middle East Monitor3 days ago



Deputy head of Iran Railways company, Mazyar Yazdani said Monday that President, Hassan Rouhani has ordered to start constructing the railway line from the Iranian port of Shalamcheh to the city of Basra in Iraq.

Yazdani explained that the Shalamcheh-Basra railway line will be 32 kilometres long and will cost 2200 billion riyals, Iranian Fars news agency reported.

According to the Iranian official, Tehran will construct the railway line in Iran and Iraq and give it as a gift to Iraq but the Iraqi side has to cover the construction expenses later.

According to Yazdani after the project is completed, there will be a rail line between Iran, Iraq and Syria that extends to the port of Latakia on the Mediterranean Sea.

Iran has been trying to counter the repercussions of the sanctions imposed by the United States on Monday by relying on its regional network of relations, especially in Iraq and Syria.

https://iranian.com/2018/11/13/iran-iraq-railway-line/

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Iraq rail service back on track after war with Islamic State

John Davison
5 MIN READ


BAGHDAD/FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - At Baghdad’s grand but half-empty railway station, a single train is sputtering to life. It is the newly revived daily service to Falluja, a dusty town to the west once infamous as a Sunni insurgent stronghold.

The driver and conductor assure that the tracks running through Anbar province are now clear of mines planted by Islamic State and of collapsed bridges the group blew up when it marauded through western and northern Iraq in 2014.

The rapid advance of the militants shut down the line, before U.S.-backed Iraqi forces drove them out of Falluja in 2016 and defeated them in Iraq in late 2017.

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After a four-year hiatus, hundreds of rail passengers now travel the 30 miles (50 km) between Baghdad and Falluja in just over an hour. By car, the journey can take several.

“The train saves time. The Baghdad-bound leg arrives at 8 a.m., which suits my schedule. It’s also cheaper” than by car at 3,000 Iraqi dinars ($2.50) for a ticket, commuter Thamer Mohammed said.

“You don’t have to stop at checkpoints, and it’s safer. You avoid road accidents,” said the 42-year-old, a Falluja resident studying for a history doctorate in Baghdad.



FILE PHOTO: Passengers walk on a platform before boarding a train to Fallujah, the newly resurrected service to the city, at a railway station in Baghdad, Iraq November 7, 2018. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani
The revival in July of the daily service, once a feature of an extensive rail network dating back to the Ottoman empire, is a vivid example of Iraq’s attempts to recover from decades of unrest.

Passengers see it as a metaphor for the country’s state: security has improved enough to allow unhindered passage through countryside dominated for years by Islamic State and al Qaeda militants. But the train is dilapidated and shudders as it gathers speed.

The state of the tracks allow a steady pace of up to around 70 miles per hour (100 km), but no more. Dozens of windows have been smashed by children who play in the dirt in poor Baghdad districts and pelt carriages with stones as they cruise by.

“I hope the service will keep running, but in the last few days there have been delays. Sometimes it runs out of fuel on the journey, or has technical failures,” Mohammed said.

Abdul Sittar Muhsin, a media official for the national operator Iraqi Republic Railways, said the company was in dire need of funding to keep the service running.

“We did this with the company’s money and we’re operating at a loss,” he said.

Regular passengers include unemployed youth looking for work, a perennial problem in Iraq where demonstrations over lack of jobs, water and power turned violent in the southern city of Basra in September.

“I had a job interview with an NGO today in Baghdad, but I’m not holding out much hope,” said Yassin Jasim, a recent graduate with a degree in medicine. “I try to get casual work in Falluja, but there’s little and it’s low pay.”


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Jasim and his family moved to the relative security of Erbil in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq while Islamic State held Falluja.

The city and fertile countryside along the Euphrates river suffered a series of bruising battles after the U.S. invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein. Falluja became infamous in 2004 when four American security contractors were killed and their bodies hung from a bridge in the city.

Everywhere are reminders of a delicate security situation. Armed police patrol the train, which runs past a scrapyard of cars destroyed during fighting and the remains of a road bridge blown up by militants.

U.S. Border Patrol's other job: rescuing migrants
Railway officials hope to restore services all the way to the Syrian border. Iraq’s rail network, developed during the British mandate period and under Baath party rule in the 1960s, used to stretch to Istanbul and Aleppo in Syria via Mosul in northern Iraq.

Conflict with Iran in the 1980s, UN sanctions in the 1990s and violence since then have wrecked most of the old network, apart from regular services to Basra and now Falluja.

Plans to extend beyond Falluja might be ambitious - tracks are buried in sand and Iraqi forces have been reinforced at the border after recent Islamic State counter-attacks in Syria.

For now, the Falluja line is a big step forward.

“It’s great, I can regularly see my daughter now who is marrying a man from Falluja,” one woman said. “At the moment, things are fine.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ck-after-war-with-islamic-state-idUSKCN1NG08X

 

[Malik Alashter]

give it as a gift to Iraq but the Iraqi side has to cover the construction expenses later.

So we have to cover it later while we tens of billions in stock they should cover it right away by us building our side of the rail but we are corrupted

 

[SubWater]

So we have to cover it later while we tens of billions in stock they should cover it right away by us building our side of the rail but we are corrupted

corruption is #1 problem in our region specially Iran and Iraq.