TEHRAN – Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister Farzaneh Sadegh officially launched a project for the construction of 110 housing units under the framework of the National Housing Movement, in the southern Island of Abu Mousa in Hormozgan Province.

The ceremony for the inauguration of the mentioned project was also attended by provincial officials and MPs, IRNA reported on Tuesday.

The said project is the first phase of a larger plan based on which the National Land and Housing Organization is going to construct 480 affordable housing units on the island.

Speaking at the ceremony, Sadegh said: “We hope that such projects will encourage more population to reside in the national island.”

Abu Musa is part of Iran’s soil and it is a national island, she stressed.

In a related development, a bill with a double urgency motion has been submitted to the Islamic City Council of Tehran to name a street in the northwest of the Iranian capital after the three southern islands.

The bill was presented to the City Council following the recent meddlesome statements by the European Union and the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council on the Iranian islands.

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