Iran will build a mobile phone network and gasoline terminal in Syria under deals signed in Tehran on Tuesday during a visit by Prime Minister Imad Khamis, Iranian media reports
The five deals include a “license for a mobile phone operator, the transfer of 5,000 hectares for the creation of a gasoline terminal and 5,000 hectares for farmland” in Syria, according to the IRNA news agency.
Iran will also have the right to operate phosphate mines in Sharqiya, around 50 kilometers south of the jihadist-held ancient city of Palmyra, and a deal for Iran to invest in an unnamed Syrian port.
Tehran is the chief backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad, providing military advisers and coordinating thousands of “volunteer” fighters on the ground, which were considered vital to last month’s recapture of the rebel stronghold in Aleppo.
— AFP
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