{"id":133686,"date":"2025-02-25T19:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=133686"},"modified":"2025-02-27T16:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:36:16","slug":"lavrov-we-expect-the-construction-of-the-rasht-astara-railway-line-of-the-international-north-south-transport-corridor-to-begin-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/133686\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov: We expect the construction of the Rasht-Astara railway line of the International North-South Transport Corridor to begin soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Russia expects the construction of the Rasht-Astara railway line to begin in the near future, with a Russian export loan to be provided for this purpose. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made this statement during a press conference following negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/23241507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are pleased that our Iranian friends are taking all necessary steps before the launch of the Rasht-Astara railway construction. We expect the construction to begin very soon. A Russian export loan will be allocated for this purpose. The Rasht-Astara section will enable us to take a very important step, as it is an essential component of the full operation of the International North-South Transport Corridor,&rdquo; Lavrov stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iranian officials&rsquo; estimates, the Rasht-Astara railway will transport one million passengers and 10 million tons of cargo in its first year of operation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia expects the construction of the Rasht-Astara railway line to begin in the near future, with a Russian export loan to be provided for this purpose. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made this statement during a press conference following negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, as reported by TASS. &ldquo;We are pleased that our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":133218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}