Iran has begun the process for building power plant in western Syrian province of Latakia in line with pledges to help reconstruction of the Arab country following a decade of war.

On Sunday, it was reported that a number of gas turbines had been shipped to the province in line with Iran’s efforts to carry out the project.

Pictures circulated across the social media showed the huge equipment entering Latakia using heavy transport vehicles.

Iran’s Mapna Group, a sprawling industrial conglomerate, has been tasked with implementing the project.

The Islamic Republic has been providing economic, political, and military advisory support for Syria in the face of the foreign-backed violence that began afflicting the Arab country in 2011.

The advisory assistance helped the Arab country defeat the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh in late 2017.

The volume of the Islamic Republic’s exports to Syria now stands at some $1 billion each year. The countries' ties are now focused on helping Syria rebuild itself and recover faster from the fallout of the war.

Most recently, the two sides reaffirmed their intention to further develop their relations during a trip by Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf to Damascus.

Shortly before that, President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi—who has now been formally inaugurated as the Islamic Republic’s chief executive—and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, talking on the phone and laying emphasis on the same imperative.