BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq hopes to complete its first railway link with neighbouring Iran within 18 months, largely to help facilitate the transport of ...
BAGHDAD - Iraq hopes to complete its first railway link with neighbouring Iran within 18 months, largely to help facilitate the transport of millions of pilgrims that visit Shi'ite MuslimBAGHDAD - Iraq hopes to complete its first railway link with neighbouring Iran within 18 months, largely to help facilitate the transport of millions of pilgrims that visit Shi'ite Muslim shrines in Iraq each year, a senior transport adviser said.
"We should see the trains moving in about 18 months because it's a small distance," Nasser Al-Asadi, transport advisor to the Iraqi prime minister, told Reuters. Iraq and Iran fought a devastating eight-year war in the 1980s, during which much of the border area was heavily mined. Many pilgrims walk hundreds of kilometres from the Iran-Iraq border to Karbala, or drive there in overcrowded cars and buses, and deadly accidents have been frequent.
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