Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian made the statement on the sidelines of his meeting with Charymyrat Purchekov, deputy chairman of Turkmenistan’s Cabinet of Ministers in charge of construction, industrial and energy complexes, in Ashgabat on Wednesday, IRNA reported.
“The two sides agreed to lay an electricity transmission line from Mary State Power Plant in Turkmenistan's Mary City to Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi Province of Iran,” Mehrabian added.
According to the minister, the deal to import electricity from the neighboring state will be renewed soon.