December 4 , 2017
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 	- The first phase of the chabahar port project known as the “Shahid Beheshti port” was inaugurated recently.
 
 	- It opens up a new strategic transit route between Iran, India and Afghanistan, bypassing Pakistan under the 2016 Indo-Afghan-Iran trilateral pact.
 
 	- The port lies outside the Persian Gulf and is easily accessed from India’s western coast.
 
 	- India is also constructing a railway line between Chabahar and Zahedan to connect the port to rest of the Iranian railway network.
 
 	- It is further to be linked with Delaram-Zaranj road, built by India in Afghanistan that connects at Afghan-Iran border via rail through Zahedan.
 
 	- The port, through Zahedan railway network, could also be linked with the International North South Transport Corridor connecting India with Russia.
 
 	- Over a month ago, India sent its first consignment of wheat to Afghanistan by sea through the Chabahar port.
 
                                 
                            
                                
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