Controversial Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is campaigning to be re-elected on the plank that his country is advancing as rapidly as a train, only the train in question is Irish, almost as old as he is and until 2007 was delivering freight around the country.
There's a pun here somewhere about Gerrymandering but in the current climate probably best not to make it.
UPDATE: This from Andrew Grantham over at the Railway Gazette...
An Irish diesel?
That's nothing - look at the train on the top of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways website!
Beats an exported Pacer.