Khademi added that the Iranian delegation visited the site where Shalamcheh-Basra railway is going to start, adding that whenever the Iraqi side assign the land that is needed for the implementation of the project, the experts will be deployed there and the Iranian Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructures Company will evaluate the needed credit.

The railway connects the city of Shalamcheh in southwestern Iran to Basra in southern Iraq. The Shalamcheh-Basra railway project is estimated to cost 2.22 billion rials and can link Iran to Syria via Iraq, a Press TV report evaluated as such back in April.

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“We are ready to implement the project in Iraq, expecting the Iraqi government to allocate the intended land of the project to us,” he added.

In early June Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami had named holding talks with Iraqi side on selecting a contractor for Shalamcheh-Basra railway among his ministry’s top priorities during the current Iranian year (ending on March 20, 2020).

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