AGREEMENT// On the eve of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Iran, both countries signed the “historic” Chabahar port agreement, which has the potential of becoming India’s gateway to Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, “Today, we have this chance to develop relations further to be even more beneficial to the people of our two countries.” Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani also joined the two leaders and a trilateral transit agreement was signed. That was not all. Anticipating threat to peace and stability in the region, they also agreed to cooperate on “intelligence-sharing” to combat “terrorism”, “drug trafficking” and “cyber crime”, in addition to discussing political issues as well. The two sides signed a total of 12 of agreements on economy, trade, transportation, port development, culture, science and academic cooperation.