Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 8

23-Feb-2009

IRAN

Iran Offers Help To Complete Tajik Hydropower Plant

Irans Ambassador to Tajikistan Ali Sherdust told reporters on 17 February that Tehran had offered to the Dushanbe government the help of a consortium of Iranian private and public companies in completing the construction of a 3.6gw hydroelectric power plant at Rogum on the Vaksh river. The move follows Russias refusal to finance the project because of objections from Uzbekistan over the...