- Iran has dropped India from the Chabahar rail project, for the construction of railway line from Chabahar port to Zahedan, along the Iran-Afghanistan border.
- The reason that Iran gave for dropping India was delays from the Indian side in funding and starting the construction of the project.
- Iran has now decided to move ahead with the construction of Chabahar railway line to Zahedan on its own.
- For this $400 million will be sanctioned by the Iranian National Development Fund and the entire project will be completed by March 2022, without any assistance from India.
- It must be noted that this decision has been taken by Iran at a time when it is seeking to finalise a 25-year economic and security partnership with China worth $400 billion.