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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs

"Turkey feels Iran chill
By Iason Athanasiadis

TEHRAN - Iran's supply of natural gas to Turkey was inexplicably slashed by 70% last Friday, in one of the coldest months of the year. On the same day, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul raised the tension between the two countries by calling for greater Iranian 'transparency' over Tehran's nuclear program.

'There should not be an armament race in the region,' he said. 'We follow a policy to clean the entire Middle East [of] WMD [weapons of mass destruction].'"

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