EghtesadOnline: The project to electrify a railroad connecting the Iranian city of Garmsar in Semnan Province with Inche Borun near the border with Turkmenistan will double the maximum speed on the link, while its capacity will grow fourfold to 10 million tons per year, the head of Russian Railways said.

EghtesadOnline: The state monopoly Russian Railways considers its project on the electrification of the railroad in Iran completely civilian and not subject to US sanctions, the company’s CEO Oleg Belozerov said in an interview with Sputnik before the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.