Jul 31, 2016, 3:05 PM

Iran, Russia to cooperate in building remote-sensing satellite

Iran, Russia to cooperate in building remote-sensing satellite

TEHRAN, Jul. 31 (MNA) – Minister of IT has said an agreement has been hit with Russia where it will cooperate with Iran in developing Iran’s National Remote-Sensing Satellite.

Mahmoud Vaezi was in a tour of Moscow to discuss tech cooperation with Russia. Upon returning Tehran, he told reporters that among his visit’s achievement was an initial agreement with Russian to work with Iranian industries to build the remote-sensing satellite, under the title of National Remote-Sensing Satellite; “as the project is very critical, we predict building of the satellite to last two years,” said Mr. Vaezi to the press.

On Russian search engine Yandex, Vaezi added that Iran welcomed foreign investments; “Russians has requested that their search engine be active in Iran and the engine will face no limits; “the engine will start operation in Iran after preliminary work and some technicalities; we believe that all search engines should compete for the public markets and people should freely choose from among them,” he concluded.

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