Iran, Italy ink seven agreements as Renzi visits Tehran

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Iran, Italy ink seven agreements as Renzi visits Tehran



TEHRAN - Iran and Italy on Tuesday signed seven cooperation agreements, bringing the two countries closer in cultural, industrial, and economic fields.

President Hassan Rouhani and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and other senior officials from the two countries attended the signing ceremony.
In one of the memoranda of understanding, National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGC) and Italian Eni agreed to establish their ties.
Eni is mainly engaged worldwide in exploring, producing, transporting, transforming, and marketing activities associated with oil and gas.
Other contracts were on automotive industry, tourism, renewable energy, airport construction, railways, and exhibition staging.
“Italy was Iran’s biggest trade partner in the European Union prior to the sanctions, and today we want the country to perform its previous role,” Rouhani said at a joint press conference with Renzi.
Also, the Italian prime minister called for close economic interactions between the two countries, stressing that establishing banking links and opening credit lines are key to strong economic and trade flourishing.
Renzi vowed to call on the G7 countries to completely lift sanctions against Iran, thereby smoothing the path for expansion of economic and cultural bonds.
Heading a 250-strong political and economic delegation, Renzi arrived at Tehran early on Tuesday, making him the first Italian official in such capacity to visit Iran since 2001.
Parts of the delegation are Italian ministers of infrastructures and transports, economic development, and agriculture, food and forestry policies. Businessmen and personalities from Italy’s public and private sectors are also accompanying Renzi in the visit.
Already in January, Iran and Italy concluded 17 deals, worth €17 billion during Rouhani’s visit to the European country.
Europeans are willing to reestablish trade ties with Tehran, which rejoined the global economy in January following the implementation of the JCPOA, commonly called the nuclear deal.
These days, Tehran has turned into a political hive. Just before the Italian prime minister, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev left Tehran for Astana.
Also, EU foreign policy chief Mogherini, heading a high-ranking delegation, will be visiting Iran to exchange views with Iranian officials on a wide range of issues. Seven European commissioners will accompany Mogherini.

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Renzi vowed to call on the G7 countries to completely remove sanctions against Iran, thereby smoothing the path for expansion of economic and cultural bonds.

Iran, Italy ink seven agreements as Renzi visits Tehran - Tehran Times

 

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Iranian Leader Underlines Iran’s Positive View on Cooperation with Italy



TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said Iran holds a “positive” view of Italy, expressing the hope that visit by the European country’s prime minister would further strengthen Iran’s optimistic view.

“Our view about cooperation with Italy and your government is a different and positive view and we hope that the visit (by Matteo Renzi) would boost the view,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with Renzi and his accompanying delegation in Tehran on Tuesday.

Pointing to Rome’s behavior toward Iran during Iraqi imposed war on the country in the 1980s, the Leader said Italy exercised more logical behavior compared with some Western countries.

“The Islamic Republic welcomes improvement of ties with Italy in different fields, economic cooperation in particular.”

The Leader at the same time criticized visits by European delegations to Iran for lacking “tangible and practical results”.

“Some European governments and companies have been visiting Iran and are in talks (with Iran), but the outcome of these negotiations has not yet been tangible,” the Leader said.

He said some sides blame the US for the lack of tangible results, adding the assessment seems to be acceptable given Americans’ track record and behavior.

“As even now they (the Americans) are not acting as they should in fulfilling their obligations [made] throughout the nuclear talks…,” Imam Khamenei said.

Ayatollah Khamenei further said Iran and Italy can cooperate in fighting terrorism.

“A number of European countries used to support certain violent terrorist groups for some time and today the dangerous and overarching wave of terrorism has reached Europe too,” the Leader added.

Ayatollah Khamenei cited the US’s financial and arms support for terrorist groups as an obstacle to the eradication of terrorism.

The Italian prime minister started a visit to Tehran earlier in the day at the head of a 250-strong political and economic delegation.

Six documents for cooperation were later signed during a high-level meeting presided over by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Renzi.

 

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Heading a 250-strong political and economic delegation, Renzi arrived at Tehran early on Tuesday, making him the first Italian official in such capacity to visit Iran since 2001.
Parts of the delegation are Italian ministers of infrastructures and transports, economic development, and agriculture, food and forestry policies. Businessmen and personalities from Italy’s public and private sectors are also accompanying Renzi in the visit.

This is really a big visit and given iran human capital it is poised for rapid growth and economic ties with europe

 

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Iran, Italy to Co-op in Airport Construction

Italy’s Vitali SPA will build a new terminal for Tabriz International Airport in northwestern Iran.

ILNA reports that the Iranian Airports Holding Company (IAC) and Vitali signed the agreement for the investment, design and construction of the new airport terminal during the recent Iran-Italy trade meeting in Tehran.

The estimated value for the construction of the terminal is .

The 50-million-euro terminal will be built in two phases and will have the reception capacity for passengers of one wide-body and two average-body aircrafts at the same time. The first phase of the terminal will be constructed in an area of 20,000 square meters.

Iran and Italy also signed a memorandum of understanding on technology transfer for restructuring and modernization of airport infrastructures of Iran.

Italy’s SEA group also has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IAC for the development project of Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran.

http://www.iran-bn.com/2016/04/21/iran-italy-to-co-op-in-airport-construction/

This is really a big visit and given iran human capital it is poised for rapid growth and economic ties with europe

Iran and Italy are traditional friends.

 

[somebozo]

Iran and Italy are traditional friends.

This is quite interesting as the Roman empire and Persian empire were at their throats enabling the mutual weakness which allowed Arabs to rise as an empire.

 

[Hack-Hook]

This is quite interesting as the Roman empire and Persian empire were at their throats enabling the mutual weakness which allowed Arabs to rise as an empire.

We Weare not traditional friends but we traditionally have mutual interstate.
It's like Iran and turkey we always had our differences and mutual interests.

 

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[Arminkh]

I'm always amazed by Yazdis' business ingenious. Great news

 

[MarkusS]

We Weare not traditional friends but we traditionally have mutual interstate.
It's like Iran and turkey we always had our differences and mutual interests.

I dont think it was that negative at all. Sure we had wars but there were also periods of peace between us and persia. Just the normal cracks between two great powers.

I think this agreement is positive.