The Iranian Minister of Information and Communication Technology Seyed Sattar Hashemi on Wednesday kicked off his second provincial trip to inaugurate communication projects and meet local officials and people during a three-day visit to the southwest Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad Province.
He is scheduled to visit the
nomadic girls' dormitory to review the communication status of the dormitory
and meet the representative of the Supreme Leader and the Friday Prayers Imam
of the provincial capital Yasuj, businessmen and knowledge-based companies in
the field of information and communication technology, as well as the
representative of the province's people in the Assembly of Experts on the first
day of the visit.
Hashemi paid his first provincial
visit to the holy city of Mashhad, capital of the Razavi
Khorasan Province last November, after he was approved as the ICT minister in August 2024 by the Iranian parliament.
On the second day of the visit to
Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad province, Hashemi inaugurates Irancell mobile network
operator company’s projects in Sadrollah village and Hijrat School for girls and
will visit ongoing projects of the Dehdasht Infrastructure Communication Center.
Launching the communication
projects of the Hamrahe Aval mobile network operator in Chahar Bisheh Sofla
village, visiting the Gachsaran Innovation and Development Center and holding a
cordial meeting with the nomads of the Sadat Abad region are on the list of the
second day of his visit to the province.
He is also planned to take part
in the meeting of the provincial Administrative Council to exchange views with
the provincial governors, officials, and directors.
The provincial visits by government officials in Iran have been in practice
as means of face-to-face meeting with the people and to hear their voices. During
election campaigning and in public meetings, President Masoud Pezeshkian who
took office last year promised to lift Internet curbs.
In the first step to ease Internet restriction, he fulfilled his promise by
lifting filtering of WhatsApp messaging service and Google Play digital
distribution service last December.
On Friday and the final leg of the
minister’s visit, Hashemi is to hold a meeting with his colleagues at the provincial
Directorate General of Information and Communication Technology, subsidiary companies,
visit the war veterans at Yasuj Neurological Hospital, and participate in the Yasuj Friday Prayers where he
will meet the local people.