Iran-Turkmenistan Relations

Iran and Turkmenistan have agreed to boost power exchange by laying a new transmission line and renewing power trade agreement in 2023.

Iran and Turkmenistan have agreed on better management of water shared from Friendship Dam (also known as Doosti Dam), managing director of Mashhad Water and Wastewater Company said. “As per…

Iran has the infrastructure for increasing gas import and swap with neighboring countries to 40 million cubic meters per day, or 15 billion cubic meters per year, the oil minister said.

The natural gas swap deal between Iran and Turkmenistan has become operational. Iran’s Oil Ministry has announced that the gas swap agreement for up to 2 billion cubic meters per year took…

Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow called for closer cooperation with Iran in international organizations, highlighting the importance of economic and trade interaction with the…

Iran, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have concluded a natural gas swap agreement for up to 2 billion cubic meters per year, which will take effect on Dec. 22. According to Oil Minister Javad Owji…

President Ebrahim Raeisi will be heading for the Turkmen capital Ashgabat on Saturday to take part in the 15th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization. 

Turkmenistan closed its land border with Iran’s Sarakhs in Khorasan Razavi Province on Thursday after a short stint of reopening.  According to Mohammad Mehdi Rezaei, director of Sarakhs…

The International Court of Arbitration (ICA) announced its verdict over the Iran-Turkmenistan gas row. IRNA said based on information from the Oil Ministry and the National Iranian Gas Company…

After being held up behind Incheh Boriun border checkpoint for around four months due to the outbreak of Covid-19, 30 wagons loaded with Iranian commodities were given permission to cross the…

After being held up behind Sarakhs border crossing for two and a half months, 30 wagons carrying Iranian goods were let into the neighboring Turkmenistan on Thursday, according to the spokesman…

Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami and his Turkmen counterpart Gandymov Rahim Nurgeldiyevich jointly inaugurated Sarakhs Transit Bridge on the border of two countries…

The 15th Iran-Turkmenistan Commission of Economic Cooperation convened in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on Tuesday and concludes on Oct. 2.  Shahram Adamnejad, the deputy minister of roads and…

The National Iranian Gas Company filed a lawsuit against Turkmengaz, the national gas company of Turkmenistan, last year in the International Court of Arbitration. Despite rumors in sections of…

Iran traded $312 million worth of commodities with Turkmenistan during the 10 months to Jan. 20, according to Iran's commercial attaché to Turkmenistan.  Iran’s exports to the neighboring…

More than 46,350 people entered Iran from Turkmenistan through Incheh Borun, Golestan Province’s only land border terminal, during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec…

Iran traded 257,483 tons of non-oil commodities worth $153.97 million with Turkmenistan during the first five months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Aug. 22).

This marks a 37.8% and…

Turkmenistan has banned transit trucks heading from Iran’s Lotfabad Customs Terminal in Khorasan Razavi Province’s Dargaz County to Tajikistan though its territory. Ali Akbar Shamani, director…

Iran traded 194,214 tons of non-oil commodities worth $113.77 million with Turkmenistan during the first four months of the current fiscal year (March 21-July 22). This marks a 41.07% and 19.99…

Iran plans to use Turkmenistan-bound wagons to facilitate cement exports to Central Asia, especially Uzbekistan, an official with the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways said.

Deputy Roads and Urban Development Minister Abdolhashem Hassannia has criticized Turkmenistan’s unilateral decision to increase by 50% the tax on Iranian transit fleet. In a meeting with Turkmen…

Iran traded $431.15 million worth of non-oil goods with Turkmenistan in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2018), registering a decline of  25.57% compared with the year before to make…

A high-ranking political-economic delegation arrived in Tehran on Saturday to discuss ways of improving all-round ties between the two neighboring countries.  Turkmenistan’s Deputy Prime…

Transferring Turkmenistan's gas to Pakistan via Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, aka Peace Pipeline, will benefit both neighboring states, the National Iranian Gas Company's managing director said.…

Leading a high-ranking delegation, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi set off to Turkmenistan on May 2 to attend transportation-related events during his two-day stay…