tehran looking to strengthen trade investment and energy ties with iran prime minister narendra modi on sunday arrived here on a twoday visit during which a crucial agreement is expected to be signed on developing the strategic chabahar portmodi who is the first indian prime minister to visit iran in the last 15 years was received at the mehrabad international airport by irans finance and economic affairs minister ali tayyebnia after which he left for a local gurudwara to meet people of indian origin hereformal talks with iranian president hassan rouhani are scheduled for monday morning after a ceremonial welcome for the prime minister rouhani will also host a lunch for himmodi will also call on irans supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei as well before his returnahead of his arrival modi in a series of tweets said enhancing connectivity trade investments energy partnership culture and people to people contacts would be our prioritymy meetings with president rouhani and honble supreme leader of iran will provide an opportunity to advance our strategic partnership the prime minister addedbesides signing a deal on development of phase1 of the chabahar port india is looking at doubling oil imports from the persian gulf nation which a few years back was its secondbiggest oil supplier as well as making progress on getting rights to develop a giant gas field in the energyrich countryroad transport highways and shipping minister nitin gadkari will also be present there for the signing of the agreement on chabahar portpostsanctions iran has seen a flurry of diplomatic and business activities with leaders from china to korea courting tehranin the runup to modis visit transport minister gadkari oil minister dharmendra pradhan and external affairs minister sushma swaraj had visited tehranstating that he looked forward to the conclusion of the chahbahar agreement during his visit the prime minister said india and iran enjoy civilisational ties and have shared interest in the peace security stability and prosperity of the region