First 'Silk Road' train arrives in Tehran from China

the same people who try to promote gay marriage have tried to make Sparta and Lesbos and even alexander the great all about gay things, and invented the word lesbian, so that you don't know Israel was controlled by Greece for 300 years before rome took it for 600.

the Persian words for family are the same as latin ones........ mama, brother.

Did anyone of you americans already ask yourselves why USA is the only industrialised country that never bet on a highspeed interstate rail system?

Well, I dont have a clue myself, but looking at the powerfull oil industry it seams to me that they may have a very good lobby in USA.

On the other front, does anyone understand why is the USA doing everything to jeopardize her very own interests by having this guerrila type of war with countries like Russia,Iran and China just to mention a few?

The USA just defrost billions of Iranian dollars frozem by the sanctions and now what we see.....they are spending it bying fighter jets and missile systems from the Russians and all other type of hardware from China....where I am they call it to kill the golden egg chiken....

Iran's president said in an interview in the French press that the market is open to all Americans and American companies. But America itself is an obstacle to getting American companies to Iran. And laws in America should be improved. America senators and representatives in the Senate and Congress who are deceived by propaganda, Israel and Saudi Arabia to prevent become constructive relations between Iran and America.

Trains should be used more in Asia. Seeing trucks from Kazakstan in Europe is absurd.

A useless commercial undertaking. Only politically it makes sense. Only the Chinese and Iranian rails are of international gage. Others in between that were parts of the defunct Soviet Union use the wide Soviet gage. To the south all were part of the British Empire, and use the even older wider British gage. So neither India-Pakistan-South Asia, nor the countries of Central Asia or Russia are accessible to Iranian or Chinese trains. Everything has to be brought down, and reloaded at the borders into new trains, several times. No wonder it two two weeks or time to travel what should have taken only 5 days and night. The train locomotive in the picture is an Iranian one, because no Chinese train could have used the rails in between and get to Iran. Sorry history buffs. Politics got there first

Ah China. Comes as no surprise they'll dive on business prospects

Maybe some friendly and peaceful mood will be established on European and Asian continents, let's hope USA will not show up and try to blow everything off as usually. USA is like a rat always showing its nose from under somewhere and trying to bite everybody, stay on your continent and mind your own business. If someone is doing good it does not mean you must blow it off!

China is the way to future, America sucks.

And the entire sum of 600 billion will not be made in US Dollars...bad time for greenback is on the horizon.

*The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along its length, beginning during the Han dynasty (207 BCE – 220 CE).

*During the last 22 years of his [Muhammad (610–632)] life, beginning at age 40 in 610 CE, according to the earliest surviving biographies, Muhammad reported revelations that he believed to be from God, conveyed to him through the archangel Gabriel (Jibril). Muhammad's companions memorized and recorded the content of these revelations, known as the Qur'an

*WIKIPEDIA

Well would you take a gander at those ancient dates. Why it seems everything old is new again. Ain't life GRAND!

China , like imperial Japan before it views itself as the dominant power in Asia. It abhors American diplomatic, economic and military coercion in Asian affairs. It does not fear an nuclear Iran and was the power behind the nuclear "deal" which exited the US out of the region. It armed the Iranians with the modern stealthy shore to ship missiles that made the Persian Gulf a death trap for the big capital ships of the US Navy. Obama lost the strategic chess match and withdrew. China views Iran not as a threat but as a source of oil and gas and its seventy five million citizens as a market for its export oriented economy.

Iran is highly into its opium products. The old trade routes were used mostly for opium . Currently, Afghanistan is the number one opium producing country in the world, and not by choice. By US military enforcement and protections. oops. Now look at your geography maps. Guess who wanted to take over Iran . Just to the west past Iraq, Jordan ( where ISIS was trained) Syria,(currently under a siege) , and Palestine. OK , so Israel is the obvious destination. On the Israeli side there is nothing but death and destruction, and death and construction in occupied Palestine. While on the China /Iran side there is peace and prosperity for anyone who has a pipe.

For trading this breakthrough is awesome and salute for China's engineers. This new route hits Trans Siberian route as the longest one before: 9,288 km. It's extreemely dangerous for the terrorism and the viruses (kind of H1N1). As matter of fact, Mediterranean countries are the nest of terrorism.

Every administration in the last fifty years has been actively helping corporations move manufacturing and (therefore) well paying jobs out of the US (Obama the king of free trade has recently given us the TPP). GE and GM and Caterpillar...all gone. Detroit, once a shining star of American entrepreneurship and capitalism, is now a bombed out shell of it's former self. So, thanks to NAFTA and the normalization of trade relations with China, we have empowered countries like China. But now, since we shipped all the well paying jobs out of the US, we Americans are being forced to cut back spending. So to sell their slave-factory wares, they turn to places like Iran. Further empowering enemies of the US. All so a small % of Americans who own stock could make more money.

Military conquest is an economic negative. Short term gains like stopping Euros from being used to buy Iraqi oil, are outweighed by consequence like the Iraqi army becoming ISIS and renewing the Islamic civil war. The rule of the US oil/military/industrial complex Eisenhower warned about is coming to a close. It will be costly and painful for America.

China continues to dominate the world. Very good to see.

I guess an easy way to arm Persia! Main Land China will load those trains of missile tanks and everything they have in their arsenal in less than five years Persia will be a super economy power they are going to invest in modernization education and reinforce their armed forces, they are very intelligent people they will be working for the future. I am happy because a war was avoided and our soldiers won't have to fight and die for other people that do not fight they are good agitators and when the rockets start falling they are like marathon runners, running fast into bunkers!

Ideassoul

Interesting, but it reads like an unedited Iranian press release.

China is smart the US is stupid. Our failed foreign policy made the US an enemy in the Middle East. China is making money, we have lost billions of dollars and thousands of lives there.

Read the posts and it Sounds like the Lefties are full of praise for China and Iran.....because they are too stupid to think for themselves, it is up to us to point out,......This is a living example of how Capitalism and Free Enterprise are lifting the people out of poverty, where Socialism and Ideology have failed......Do you think they've learned anything from this, Carrier AC, moving to Mexico, or Cuba opening a Tractor Assembly Facilility ??? Not a chance.