Iran to keep working on power plant project in Syria

TEHRAN,Jan.17(MNA)--Iran will go on implementing the power plant project in the Syrian city of Jandar even after five Iranian technicians, who were working on the project, were abducted on December 21, 2011 by a group of unknown gunmen, the Iranian deputy energy minister said. Ali Zabihi told that the project has so far progressed by 70 percent and in normal situations it will be inaugurated by the end of spring. The Iranian technicians were on their way to work at the city's Jandar power plant, which has been under construction for the past two years. This comes as MAPNA Group, a group of Iranian companies involved in the construction and installation of energy production machinery, released a statement in which it stressed the abducted technicians were involved in an electricity project in Syria, and had nothing to do with the political conflict in the country.