Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Trans-Iranian Railway' has mentioned 'Iran' in the following places:
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| For the national operator, see Islamic Republic of Iran Railways. | WIKI |
| The Trans-Iranian Railway (Persian: xd8xb1xd8xa7xd9x87xe2x80x8cxd8xa2xd9x87xd9x86 xd8xb3xd8xb1xd8xa7xd8xb3xd8xb1xdbx8c xd8xa7xdbx8cxd8xb1xd8xa7xd9x86xe2x80x8e) was a major railway building project started in Pahlavi Iran in 1927 and completed in 1938, under the direction of the then-Iranian monarch Reza Shah. | WIKI |
| However, the Russian government declined such proposals, fearing that it would jeopardize Russia's geographically enabled commercial dominance in Iran as well as complicate relations with the British. | WIKI |
| In 1889, Russia and the Shah agreed that no railways would be built in Iran without the consent of the Russians. | WIKI |
| Fears that Russian interests were no longer primary, alongside the surfacing of anti-Russian political forces in the country, and the emergence of a German threat, made it more important than ever for Iran to protect its commercial interests by building a railway. | WIKI |
| However, the final step needed to initiate the project was the support of the British, who wanted to restore financial stability in Iran but did not wish to be involved in the Trans-Iranian Railway Consortium through the proposed four to six million pound loan, proposed by Alexander Izvolsky, Imperial Foreign Minister 1906xe2x80x9310, and Sergey Sazonov, Foreign Minister 1910xe2x80x9316. | WIKI |
| Such instability caused investors in the Socixc3xa9txc3xa9 d'Etudes to hesitate in investing in a bankrupt Iran. | WIKI |
| However, Sir Edward Grey, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, refused to force the Iranians to accept Sa'd Dawla as Prime Minister, because of his aversion to the Constitutional movement in Iran. | WIKI |
| After the substantial interruption of World War I, the project for constructing a standard-gauge 1,435xc2xa0mm (4xc2xa0ftxc2xa08+1xe2x81x842xc2xa0in) railway across Iran was initiated by Reza Shah Pahlavi as part of numerous reforms contributing to the drastic modernization of Iran that occurred over the decades between World War I and World War II. | WIKI |
| Although technically independent, Iran was still a financially devastated and weak country. | WIKI |
| Initially, British and Russian observers considered the implantation of railroads as the ultimate solution to the immense transportation problems Iran faced due to sparsely settled population, the lack of rivers, high mountains, and inhospitable desert regions of the country. | WIKI |
| [15] However, if a cabinet minister was caught criticizing the extensive tax burden the railway produced, he could be placed in prison on counts of being a British collaborator, decidedly attempting to keep Iran backwards for his own financial and strategic goals. | WIKI |
| Although much opposition to the railway was politically and financially motivated, the railway was an expensive tax-burden, costing Iran 2,195,180,700 rials through 1938-1939. | WIKI |
| In the following years Reza who became Shah in 1925 had legislation passed in parliament which secured internal Iranian funding for the railroad project from taxes levied on consumption of sugar and other goods thus excluding a new round of external debts that had bogged down the rulers of Iran before World War I. | WIKI |
| In April 1933 Iran concluded a contract with the Danish firm Kampsax. | WIKI |
| Kampsax subcontracted the project in 43 lots to companies from Europe, the USA and Iran. | WIKI |
| In 1936 Beyer, Peacock & Company supplied Iran with four Garratt 4-8-2+2-8-4 articulated locomotives (works numbers 6787xe2x80x936890). | WIKI |
| [26] Until the British invasion of Iran in 1941 (see below, Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran) these Garratts seem to have been the only standard gauge British locomotives in Iran. | WIKI |
| The British and Russians initially stated their reason for invading Iran was the Iranian government's failure to rid the country of Germans, who supposedly were planning an eventual coup d'etat. | WIKI |
| [28] Yet there were other reasons for the invasion, and the Trans-Iranian Railways key location as part of the so-called "Persian Corridor" was one of the primary reasons for the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in World War II. | WIKI |
| In August 1941 Soviet, British and British Indian forces invaded Iran to protect their oil supply in Iran and to [30] secure the Persian Corridor supply route from the Persian Gulf to the Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union. | WIKI |
| [33] In the same year Davenport Locomotive Works supplied 24 diesel-mechanical 0-4-0 switchers, designated class 20.01,[34] that Iran had ordered before the Allied invasion. | WIKI |
| [35] An additional 44 RSD-1s were built for use in Iran. | WIKI |
| Shortly afterwards the British restored the line to Iranian State Railways,[33] the predecessor to the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways. | WIKI |
| In 2014, the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway link, part of the International Northxe2x80x93South Transport Corridor, was completed and made operational, connecting Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan with Iran, with a new line connecting Gorgan to Etrek in Turkmenistan. | WIKI |