First Chinese freight train to depart Iran for China
Today, the first Chinese transit train will leave Iran for China, according to the spokesperson for the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.
Ebrahim Rezaei cited Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mehdi Safari as presenting a report on the activities and missions in the field of transit and economy on Saturday, Mehr reported.
Rezaei said that a Chinese transit train left China on July 16 for Iran and on Sunday the first train from Iran to China will depart with the presence of Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Seyyed Miad Salehi, along with the ambassadors from China, Kazakhstan, and
Turkmenistan.
“In continuation of the efforts of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to strengthen the transit position of the country in the transfer of Chinese goods to West Asia and Europe, the departure of the Xi’an train towards Tehran began during a ceremony,” Iran’s Ambassador to China Mohsen Bakhtiar said last Sunday.