EghtesadOnline: Nine large industrial, development, and tourism projects, worth 8 trillion rials (about $210 million) came on stream in the two Persian Gulf islands of Kish and Hendurabi.

EghtesadOnline: Tehran’s substitute Friday prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami underlined that the three islands in the Persian Gulf had always been Iranian and will remain Iranian and whoever wants to violate them will face a harsh punishment.

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said Iran’s sovereignty over the three Persian Gulf islands of the Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser Tunb is an irrefutable and a perpetual fact.

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Monday that the UAE claims over three Iranian Persian Gulf islands are only repetition of previous nonsense claims.

EghtesadOnline: Iran's representative in the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) Ali Kazemi said that Tehran is ready for talks to remove misunderstandings but its sovereignty over the Persian Gulf Islands of Abu Mussa, Greater and Lesser Tunbs is non-negotiable.

EghtesadOnline: Member of Parliament Mostafa Kavakebian on Monday reaffirmed Iran's sovereignty over three Persian Gulf islands – Abu Musa, the Lesser and Greater Tunbs.