TEHRAN, July 16 (Mehr News Agency) -- The Resalat Tunnel was officially inaugurated on Saturday July 15 in a ceremony attended by the president, Tehran mayor and Tehran City Council members

Citizens can start using the 1,900 meter tunnel, connecting east and west Tehran, from Sunday July 16.

The Resalat tunnel, among the biggest national development projects, took nine years of work to be constructed.

It is one of the longest highways in the heart of Tehran.

مسیرهای ورودی و خروجی تونل رسالت (http://sharifnews.com/?19906)

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Nice pictures Gilgamesh, what is the fans in the tunnels made for?

^^ Ventilation I guess.

Yay it's completed. I can't wait to go to Tehran and check it out.

Is the price of oil / gas in Iran the same as in USA ? How much does it cost in Tehran ?

^^ Less then 0.10 $ if im not mistaken lol

Yeh its stupidly cheap... the sad thing is because Iran's refineries cant manage the demand due to many being destroyed by Iraq in the war, Iran has to sell its crude to the UK and buy back refined petrolium for stupid priced then subsidise it to the people... :bash:

jup iraq brought Irans oil production from 6 or 7 million to 2 or 3 million... and broke even more oil infrastructure like the refineries... Imagine Iran with a oil production of 7 million barrels the last 30 years....

^^ Less then 0.10 $ if im not mistaken lol

Let me get it straight...r u saying the price of gas in Iran is 10 cents less than what we have here in US ???

I will go crazy if u tell me that it is 10 cents per gallon.

10 cents per liter lol

10 cents per liter lol

Oil price in Iran --> $0.4 per gallon
Oil price in USA --> $3.1 per gallon

:omg:

The price of Oil in Iran is less than the price of bottled water in USA. Iran should donate oil :colgate: ....to USA

Hell no! lol.. they go stick their heads in the ground in Texas and drink their own oil :P

We once had a ruler who gave our oil to the US for free... (well not for free but for military technology *rolls eyes*).. never as good as hard cash.. count 'em dukettes!

What a nice tunnel

This tunnel connects where to where? could someone show the map plz?
Thanks

^^ The tunnel goes from Arjantin sq to the kordestan expway. I havent found any map, but if u want more precise info read this http://sharifnews.com/?19906 :)

Wow cool. Thank you so much Gilgamesh :)

Still lots of traffic jam
i wonder the use of building such a tunnel

Still lots of traffic jam
i wonder the use of building such a tunnel

Thats because in general car usages grows a much higher rates that the time it takes to design, plan, approve and build a road or tunnel.

the Kurdistan end of the tunnel comes out near to place in Tehran :lol:

It was really needed imo... the bottom of Kurdistan exp'way gets really congested and that all funnels into Fatami/Kakh/Keshavarz Blvd... Now people can just undercut that and end up at Argantine Sq.

Thats because in general car usages grows a much higher rates that the time it takes to design, plan, approve and build a road or tunnel.

Hmmmm in such a case they should think of 20 yrs :nuts: and not just of 5 yrs plan:ohno: