Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, stated final week {that a} joint fee can be arrange with Iran to take ahead a plan to construct a tunnel beneath the Gulf, information company PressTV studies.
It will be the world’s longest tunnel and would increase commerce, he stated on Wednesday after a go to to Tehran.
Iranian supreme chief Ali Khamenei stated Iran prioritised ties with its neighbours and hoped for reciprocal commitments.
The concept was first raised by the late Iranian president Ebrahim Raeisi throughout his go to to Qatar in February 2022. Raeisi died in a helicopter crash in Could final 12 months.
The tunnel would begin on the northern tip of the Qatari peninsula and run for 190km, reaching the Iranian coast close to Dayyer.
That’s round thrice longer than the present longest transport tunnel in China, a 68km part of the Chengdu metro, and 5 occasions longer than the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France.
For Qatar, the tunnel would enable it to entry Eurasian markets; now, it will depend on Saudi Arabia for its land connection to the surface world.
The 2 nations have had a rocky relationship prior to now, reaching a nadir in June 2017, when the Saudis and the UAE led a coalition of nations that attempted to impose a whole blockade of Qatar’s sea, air and land routes.
The transfer improved Qatar’s relations with Iran and Turkey, each of whom provided meals help.
The tunnel would additionally enhance Qatar’s financial relationship with Russia, Asia and Europe, since it might enable it to entry the “North–South” commerce route working from the Gulf to the Caspian and the Caucasus.
PressTV notes that Qatar owns 20% of Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft “and is likely one of the largest international buyers in Russia, with which it seeks strategic partnership”.
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