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: 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: Developing Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf is one of the country's strategic plans to help promote tourism and jumpstart the local economy, according to an official at Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.

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.