Iran's Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi has inaugurated a major desalination plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, with a daily capacity of 25,000 cubic meters.

EghtesadOnline: First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri has given the nod to the use of foreign financing, in view of the government's limited financial resources, to fund two public projects: pumping water to the northern parts of Khuzestan Province and constructing three hospitals, one each in the cities of Tehran, Shiraz and Tabriz.