Monday, August 21, 2006

The New Anatolian-Iran halts gas exports to Turkey after pipeline explosion

"Iran halts gas exports to Turkey after pipeline explosion

21 August 2006

Iran halted the flow of natural gas to neighboring Turkey after an explosion on the Turkish side of an international pipeline, an Iranian gas industry official said Sunday.
“Iran’s gas export to Turkey was ceased, effective 10 p.m. Saturday due to an explosion (at the pipeline) on Turkish territory,” the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Houshang Mehrdad, an official of the National Iranian Gas Export Co., as saying."

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