Officials said Iran has completed the final stage of a $1.2 billion
pipeline from Turkmenistan. They said the 1,059-kilometer pipeline would
transport up to 20 million cubic meters of Turkmen gas per day to Iran.
On Nov. 28, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkmen
counterpart Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov attended a ceremony at Sarakhs, Iran
to inaugurate the 48-inch diameter pipeline.
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Officials said the facility
would prevent gas shortages in Iran amid United Nations and Western
sanctions.
Teheran has long imported gas from neighboring Turkmenistan for
residents of northeastern Iran. Officials cited a weak distribution system
for the failure to provide gas to all citizens.
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