China to Iran by Rail: Can a 6,000-Kilometre Freight Route Ever Compete With Sea Shipping?
A 55-container block train moving from China to Iran through Central Asia gives a useful test of a much larger question: can rail become…
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A 55-container block train moving from China to Iran through Central Asia gives a useful test of a much larger question: can rail become…
Iran’s islands in the Persian Gulf are often discussed individually. Kish is associated with tourism. Qeshm with trade and free-zone activity. Kharg with oil…
Transport corridors are often presented as coloured lines joining ports, borders and capitals. On those maps, Iran appears almost perfectly placed: the Persian Gulf…
Iran does not need to be rebuilt from zero. It needs to convert a large but increasingly isolated economic system into one that is…
Iran’s inbound tourism market is considerably smaller than it was two years ago. But the decline has not been evenly distributed. The visitors who…