Iranian President Hassan Rouhani poses during the inauguration a newly built extension of the port of Chabahar, near the Pakistani border, on the Gulf of Oman, southeastern Iran, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. The $340 million project was constructed by a Revolutionary Guard-affiliated company, Khatam ...
Iran opened on Sunday a $1 billion extension of its southeastern Chabahar port which Tehran hopes will help the country become a key transit route to land-locked Afghanistan and Central Asia, competing with a nearby Pakistani port. President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated the expansion, carried out ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani will inaugurate the first phase of the Chabahar port development project on Sunday and Sushma Swaraj would attend the event./ on Saturday paid an unscheduled visit to Iran and had luncheon meeting with her Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif in Tehran. The visit comes ...
The first phase of Chabahar port was inaugurated on Sunday by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani./ The Chabahar project is located on the Gulf of Oman, only 85km from China's Gwadar port in Pakistan./ This port is important for India as it will allow it to bypass Pakistan in accessing Afghanistan ...
The port lies outside the Persian Gulf and is easily accessed from India’s western coast and is considered as a gateway to golden opportunities for trade with central Asian countries./ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, center, speaks during the inauguration of a newly-built extension of the port ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will inaugurate the first phase of Chabahar port, known as the Shahid Beheshti port, on Sunday. The port will open up a new strategic transit route to Afghanistan and Central Asia for India through Iran, bypassing Pakistan. Iran is believed to have asked the ...
The meeting came a day before the inauguration of the Chabahar port in Iran./ The port will operationalise a new strategic transit route among India, Afghanistan and Iran, bypassing Pakistan./ The port is likely to ramp up trade among India, Afghanistan and Iran./ on Saturday made an unannounced ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during the inauguration a newly built extension of the port of Chabahar, near the Pakistani border, on the Gulf of Oman on December 3, 2017. | Photo Credit:/ The port is expected to make Chabahar, Iran’s closest sea link to the Indian Ocean, a rival to the ...
, and held a luncheon meeting with her Iranian counterpart Javed Zarif during which issues of mutual interests were discussed. Swaraj was returning from the Russian city of Sochi where she attended the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). "Reinforcing our traditionally ...
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