Two hours north of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, an Iranian construction firm is boring a hole in the side of the Fan Mountains. It’s not for stashing weapons or nuclear material. It’s for a five-kilometer tunnel that, when finished in 2007, will become the only road open year-round between this country’s two main cities. And it will mean that motorists will no longer have to make the terrifying trip between Dushanbe and Khujand across the 11,000-foot Anzob Pass. Full Story