Iran resumes rail services on routes damaged by war
Iran has resumed rail services on several key routes after repairing sections of track damaged during the recent war with Israel and the United States, according to state media reports on Monday. Authorities have begun reconstruction work on bridges, railway lines and other infrastructure that were hit during nearly 40 days of fighting. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since Wednesday, creating space for emergency repairs and limited restoration of transport links. In Iran’s northwestern Azerbaijan region, the director general of the railways said trains have started running again from the city of Tabriz to the capital Tehran and to Mashhad in the northeast. “These trains have resumed service after an interruption of four to five days,” Alireza Soleimani told the official IRNA news agency. He added that the Tehran–Tabriz–Van service also left Tehran for Van in Turkey on […]