{"id":134137,"date":"2025-04-14T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/134137\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"iran-railways-ceo-meets-with-belarusian-ambassador-on-return-to-tehran-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/134137\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Railways CEO meets with Belarusian ambassador on return to Tehran from Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

April 14, Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Iran Railways CEO Jabbar Ali Zakeri met with the Belarusian ambassador in Tehran in his return from Belarus after talks with Belarusian Railway chief last week as Minsk and Tehran are discussing ways to boost rail freight traffic along the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Belarusian foreign ministry’s press office reported that Zakeri met with Ambassador D\u017amitryj Kalco\u016d two days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zakeri, also serving as Iran’s deputy minister of roads and urban development, visited Minsk a week ago to negotiate ways to boost rail freight traffic along the International North-South Transport Corridor and sign a memorandum of cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two railway companies transported more than 34,000 tons of freight between Belarus and Iran in the first quarter of 2025. That was a sixfold increase in five years, according to Belarusian Railway CEO Valery Viareni\u010d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The INSTC, as it is imagined, is nothing less than a geopolitical game-changer: a 7,200-kilometer trade corridor linking Russia to Mumbai, one that enables Belarus and Russia to reach new and lucrative markets in the Global South via the Persian Gulf, wrote Zakhary Fillingham for Geopolitical Monitor<\/em> in September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Belarus and Russia, it offers an escape from Western sanctions. However, the project has been largely stalled for over 20 years, now requiring significant investments to fill rail gaps and expand terminal capacity in the Caspian Sea legs, the article says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarusian and Iranian officials have frequently met in the last few years as Minsk seeks to boost trade and military ties with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent exchanges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 11-12<\/strong>\u2014Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh meets with his Belarusian counterpart Viktar Chrenin and Security Council State Secretary Alaksandar Valfovi\u010d in Minsk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 10<\/strong>\u2014Deputy Transport Minister Siarhiej Dubina meets with Iranian Civil Aviation Authority President Hossein Pourfarzaneh in Minsk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 15<\/strong>\u2014Iranian Trade Minister Mohammad Atabak meets Prime Minister Raman Ha\u0142o\u016d\u010danka in Minsk. Atabak leads a delegation of executives to the 17th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mid-December 2024<\/strong>\u2014elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces and the Belarusian army take part in a week-long parachuting drill in southern Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 24, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 14, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Maj. Gen. Leanid Kasinski, ideology department head at the Belarusian defense ministry, meets in Minsk with Mojtaba Abdolmaleki, media department head at the Iranian General Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 7, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Iranian Air Force Commander Hamid Vahedi meets with his Belarusian counterpart Andrej \u0141ukjanovi\u010d in Tehran. The Belarusian general also met with the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army, Abdolrahim Mousavi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 17, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Minsk accredits Iran\u2019s military attach\u00e9 to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late April \u2013 early May 2024<\/strong>\u2014Belarusian military personnel takes part in Iran\u2019s Security Belt 2024 command and staff exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 27, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Belarusian Defense Minister Viktar Chenin meets with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Ashtiani in Astana, Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 19, 2024<\/strong>\u2014Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Seyed Ghalandari visits Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 9, 2023<\/strong>\u2014A Belarusian-Iranian defense commission holds its first meeting in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 17, 2023<\/strong>-Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber meets with \u0141uka\u0161enka in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 31, 2023<\/strong>-Defense Minister Chrenin visits Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 12-13, 2023<\/strong>-\u0141uka\u0161enka visits Iran to sign a road map for comprehensive cooperation for 2023\u20132026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ha\u0142o\u016d\u010danka said in October 2023 that two-way trade tripled in 2022 and continued to increase in 2023. According to the former prime minister, growth was recorded in 2024. However, he did not give any specific figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n
\n \"\"