TEHRAN - Following a series of trips to various provinces, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Hormozgan Province in southern Iran on Thursday for the second time during his tenure to meet with provincial officials, follow up on under-way projects and inaugurate several new projects.

As Mehr News Agency reported, during the trip President Raisi, who was accompanied by some of his cabinet members and their deputies, was welcomed by the province’s people and officials and inaugurated several major projects.

On this trip, in addition to following up on the process of implementing the approvals of the first round of his visit, Raisi inaugurated 157 projects in the fields of industry and energy.

Meetings with the people of Bandar Abbas and Minab, handing over 14,000 residential units and 11,000 plots of land under the framework of the National Housing Movement, reviving 610 idle production and industrial units, and attending a meeting of the province administrative council were also among the programs that the president attended during his trip to Hormozgan province.

Upon arrival at Bandar Abbas Airport on Thursday, President Raisi delivered a speech saying that over $2.1 billion has been allocated for the completion of the projects approved during his previous trip.

“Hormozgan has very good capacities in various fields of maritime economy, tourism, agriculture, and industry,” the president said.

Later that day, Raisi also inaugurated 74 infrastructure projects in Bandar e Khamir for which 6.7 trillion rials (about $13.4 million) has been allocated.

The mentioned projects were in various fields including housing, water supply, road construction, agriculture, education, gas supply, sports and youth, health, as well as urban and rural development.

President Raisi also inaugurated two hospitals, some health and treatment projects, some semi-finished railway projects, some sports projects, several agricultural projects, and the central library of Bandar Abbas.

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