hi, i'm kavat tachway. welcome to economic divide. some of the highlights of this program: the shalam shastra railroad construction has been announced, it was announced decades ago, but now it's going to be completed, it will connect iran and iraq, and it will have passenger and cargo as transport. next up, let's take a look or some of the other highlights in this category is plusses for iran. uh, what that means is, well, more trade activity, and also it's going to make iran a center of transport or... one of the connections making iran a center of transport, national network and regional integration, the other places for iran. but there are outside interferences when it comes to this, namely us, preventing iraq from the construction of this project, and it also does wants iran to advance. iran and iraq have laid the foundation stone for the cross-border railway line connecting the two neighboring countries. the railway will connect iraq's vastra with iranian border town of shalamche. crossborder railway p