You forget just how large the country is, more over the land is not very easy to build a rails because of its topography. Unfortunately it's not as simple as a high speed rail from Paris to Amsterdam.
You know very well it could be shorter, like 8 hours instead of 12 with investment and expansion would ease transportation of goods to major population centers.
Those 24 Su-35's are equivalent of roughly between 300 to 400 kilometers of double track railway with all necessary infrastructure that would cost Iran to build domestically.
that mean building new routes in mountainous area
or air launched one like usa
Iran doesn't have domestic capability to produce B-52 or any large cargo transport jet.
if they want they can modify Simorgh they are building for that role.
6 tons is good enough for maybe medium range ballistic missile of little over 1000 kilometer.
not if it don't need to boost from ground
This sentence from the above report is significant:
All that with just $21 million? That's a steal
