AGBI:

By Nadim Kawach

Iraq plans to launch a long-delayed project to build a rail line linking its southern regions with neighbouring Iran, the transport minister said.

The project was approved by Baghdad several years ago but was delayed due to extensive operations to clear mines and unexploded detonators left from the 1980-1988 conflict between the two countries.

“This project to build a 36 km rail from Basra to the border with Iran will be launched by the end of this year,” the minister Razzaq Al-Saadawi said in comments published on the ministry’s website on Sunday.

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