Tajikistan\'s Anzab tunnel was officially inaugurated Wednesday in presence of the visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Tajik counterpart Imomali Rakhmonov. The 5-km tunnel, constructed by Iranian experts, links northern and southern parts of Tajikistan. It also connects Dushanbe and capitals of the Central Asian states via land. Presidents Ahmadinejad and Rakhmonov attended the inaugural ceremony of the Anzab tunnel, built 80km northwest of Tajikistan\'s capital Dushanbe and on a transit route between Dushanbe and Uzbekistan\'s Tashkent. Based on an agreement between Iran\'s Ministry of Road and Transportation and Tajikistan\'s Ministry of Transport two years ago, an Iranian company, Sabir, took over construction of the tunnel. The tunnel is built at a cost of dlrs 40 million, dlrs 21 million of which has been financed by Iran. (IRNA)