president.ir- President Rouhani opened 17 infrastructural projects and ordered initiation of 11 other projects in Hormozgan province through videoconferencing in a meeting with the elite and distinguished figures of the province.

At the ceremony that was held on Wednesday in Bandar Abbas, the capital of Hormozgan province in southern Iran, the projects were opened at Dr Hassan Rouhani's order.

The projects were carried out with over 11 trillion rials and €54 million credit allocated by the government and over 14 trillion rials and €770 million credit by the private sector.

Through the opening and operation of these projects, a total of 5,432 direct jobs will be created.

The projects were in the fields of rural roads, housing, coastline corridor, water supply, water and wastewater treatment, dams, water desalination, irrigation systems, wheat silos, fish farming, greenhouse, petrol refining, gas supply, geophysics, and a number of other fields.