Iran Press/Iran news: Speaking on the development of coasts, islands and ports of the Persian Gulf with a particular focus on Bu Musa Island, Iran's PMO Head Mohammad Rastad said the drawing up of a comprehensive plan and a strategic map for the development of the Iranian islands is on the agenda of the government for the current year (which ends in March 2020).
Talking to Iran Press at Bu Musa island in the southern border of Iran in the Persian Gulf, Rastad added that positive and functional plans had been proposed at the 34th edition of a special conference of organising Iran's islands and coast which was held a few days ago.
He called on accelerating and facilitating the procedure of making Iranian Islands in the Persian Gulf habitable, noting that 17 inhabited islands and 18 uninhabited islands exist in the sovereign territorial waters of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Persian Gulf.
Bu Musa, the southernmost city in the heart of Iran's land borders in the Persian Gulf waters includes six islands of Bu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunbs, Farur Greater and Lesser Tunbs, and Siri.
According to the latest census, the population of the city of Bu Musa is 7402, and it enjoys the capacity to invest in the development of the maritime tourism industry, fisheries and aquaculture, commerce and maritime commerce (due to its short distance with the southern Persian Gulf states). 213/211/205
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