Deputy Mr. Mohammad Kobbany, president of the Parliamentary Public Works Committee accompanied by committee members visited IRI along with the Minister of Industry H. E. Eng. Abraham Dedehyan. The Institute’s Director General, Dr. Bassam Frenn, gave a speech welcoming the Minister and the committee to IRI. During their visit they viewed a movie depicting the Institute’s history and highlighting its accomplishments throughout the years and were given a comprehensive tour of IRI's laboratories.

Mr. Kobbany delivered a keynote speech in which he praised IRI’s work ethics and showed how impressed he was with its high technical level. He focused on the necessity of complying with the existing laws and mandatory decrees and emphasized the need to extend the mandatory specifications. He also expressed his admiration and that of the committee members of the superior level of professionalism at IRI and called for increasing its budget by the state, urging the concerned departments to benefit from the Institute’s expertise and high technical ability. Deputy Kobbany then mentioned the positive cooperation between the Institute and the Public Works Committee for many years in the past, especially that for bottled water.

H. E. Minister Dedehyan gave a speech praising in it IRI and its activities and noted the importance of cooperation between the Institute and other public entities.