History of Jazireh-ye Qeshm

font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">There are in the eighties on land and in the near seabed huge natural gas reserves discovered whose exploitation can take place fairly inexpensive. During the last years, large petrochemical industries and an international airport built in a tax-free zone . It is expected that the gas the cheapest gas in the world yield.

On 27 November 2005 there was a severe earthquake on the island (6.0 on the Richter scale) in which dozens of lives were lost. On 25 January 2006 the earth shook again, this time