Iran seeks beat sanctions with pipelines

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: UPI

TEHRAN, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Despite tightening international economic sanctions, Iran is driving to boost its energy industry, including a natural gas pipeline to Iraq and Syria that may even run to southern Europe and another to run through Turkey to Europe.

Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency quotes the director of the National Iranian Gas Co., Mohammad Javad Oji, as announcing an agreement with Syria, Iran's main Arab ally, to build a 1,240-mile pipeline to carry Iranian gas to Syria across Iraq to power electricity generating plants.

The project, pumping 3.88 billion cubic feet per day through the 56-inch diameter pipeline, "will later extend through southern Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea and Europe," Oji said.



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[yurbud]

1. this is the real reason Iran is on our shit list--

They are running an energy policy our oil companies aren't dictating and aren't profiting from.