Another Random email about Iran....

Kish Island is one of the places I want to visit while I am here... though I'm not sure we would be staying at this place!

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/nov/1016.html

11/02/07

Iran To Build First Solar Hotel On Kish Island in Persian Gulf

Iran is scheduled to build its first seven-star hotel with a supplementary solar energy system on Kish Island over the next two years, Press TV reported. The two-year project with an estimated budget of 520,000,000 dollars is aimed at completing the hotel in Kish in the southern province of Hormozgan by 2009-10. "Generating electricity from the sun is a very expensive project but I mean to bring this technology to Iran," said Hossein Sabet investor of the solar hotel. "Now that other countries are imposing sanctions on Iran, building such a hotel is an important step in tourism development," concluded Sabet, manager of Kish Island's Dariush Grand Hotel.

Following are some pictures from the Dariush Grand Hotel

Hossein Sabet, solar hotel investor

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