Reopening of Incheh-Burun border with Turkmenistan after 20 months

According to Fars News Agency, Customs Spokesman Seyed Ruhollah Latifi stated: “With the announcement of Turkmenistan and the agreements reached, from this Thursday morning, trucks carrying Iranian commercial cargo to Turkmenistan will be accepted.”

He added: “Since March 1998, with the outbreak of Corona, Turkmenistan’s land border with Iran was closed in” Incheh Borun “of Golestan province, and after 20 months this morning, it will resume its activities by accepting Iranian trucks.”

Latifi stressed: “According to the decisions taken by the two countries, the exported goods will enter the country by truck from” Incheh Borun “and the cargo will be transported to the final destinations by Turkmen trucks at the Turkmen customs.”

A customs spokesman explained: “In the last 20 months, traffic with Turkmenistan on other borders was completely stopped for several months, and after a while, rail routes became active only in Sarakhs, Lotfabad and Incheh Borun borders, and land routes only in Sarakhs trade borders.” “Lotfabad” in Khorasan Razavi province was reopened with a deadly displacement method.

Latifi added: The border of “tax collectors” of Khorasan Razavi with Turkmenistan has been completely closed since March 1998 and has not been reopened yet.

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