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Octobers top stories: Japan to fund India's $15bn bullet train project, Iran's $25bn rail investment plan

2015-11-09 13:14:00| Railway Technology

Network Rail warns people against taking photos on railway tracks, Japan reportedly offers to finance India's first bullet train project, and Iran announces plans to invest $25bn into the modernisation and expansion of its railway network. Railway-te

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French firms in talks to build second terminal at Irans Imam Khomeini Airport

2015-09-28 01:00:00| Airport Technology

The Iranian Government is reportedly in talks with French industrial group Bouygues and Aéroports de Paris over possible participation in the development of Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA), Tehran.

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Investment In Iran's Petrochemical Sector Could Reap Large Returns For Nimble Investors Willing To Stomach Significant Risk, IHS Says

2015-08-31 06:20:24| chemicalonline Home Page

A rekindling of direct foreign investment in Iran’s huge petrochemical sector -- if and when sanctions are lifted -- could reap large rewards for nimble investors with the significant intestinal fortitude necessary to assume relatively high levels of economic and political risks

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As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran's new problem

2015-03-21 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Nazar Sarani's village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country's worsening water crisis. "We live in the dust," said the 54-year-old cattle herder of his home in the once exceptional biosphere of Lake Hamoun, a wetland of varied flora and fauna, which is now nothing but sand-baked earth. Climate change, with less rainfall each year, is blamed, but so too is human error and government mismanagement. Iran's reservoirs are only 40 percent full according...

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