Google – AFP, 28 November 2013
Tehran — Iran and the United States are to establish a joint chamber of commerce within a month, with direct flights also planned, an Iranian official said Wednesday in a newspaper report.
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Iranians
look at newspapers displayed on the ground outside a kiosk in
Tehran on
November 25, 2013 (AFP/File, Atta Kenare)
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Tehran — Iran and the United States are to establish a joint chamber of commerce within a month, with direct flights also planned, an Iranian official said Wednesday in a newspaper report.
"Iran-US
chamber of commerce will be launched in less than one month," Abolfazl
Hejazi, a member of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and
Agriculture, told the English-language Iran Daily.
In the wake
of a historic accord on Sunday between Tehran and major powers on Iran's
controversial nuclear programme, Hejazi also said his country was ready to
start direct flights to the United States.
After the
1979 revolution in Iran, Washington severed diplomatic relations with Tehran
following the seizure of its embassy in Tehran, during which Islamist students
held 52 US diplomats hostage for 444 days.
According
to Hejazi, the project which he said had already been registered in the United
States would allow the two countries to work towards restoring ties.
Hejazi also
said the government has authorised the private sector to launch joint
activities and that Iran was ready to establish direct flights to the United
States.
Flights
would connect Kish Island in southwest Iran with New York, he said.
"This
is because Kish Island is a free trade zone and Iranian passengers who have US
citizenship will not need to obtain visas to enter it," he said.
Hejazi said
direct flights would "enable us to export domestic products to the US and
import high-tech products and raw materials from the country."
On the
sidelines of his visit to the UN General Assembly in late September, President
Hassan Rouhani pledged to ease travel to Iran for the hundreds of thousands of
Iranians living in the United States.
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