China Seeking to Link Iran to New Silk Road Initiative

TIN news: Seeking to capitalize on the easing of weste sanctions on Iran, China's railroad authority has proposed a high-speed rail line for both passengers and cargo coecting the country's northwest region to West Asia via Central Asia, according to state-run newspaper China Daily. The proposed 3,200-kilometer-long rail link, put forward last month by state-owned China Railway Corporation, would begin in Urumqi, the capital of China's restive weste Xinjiang Province, and end in the Iranian ...