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Iranian gas supplies to Turkey resume after pipeline blast

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran said on Saturday it has resumed supplying natural gas to Turkey five days after an explosion damaged a pipeline between the two countries, state media reported.


“After Turkey announced it has finished repairing the pipeline, the export of 15 to 20 million cubic metres (525 to 700 cubic feet) of gas daily has resumed,” Iranian National Gas official Hassan Torbati was quoted as saying by the state television news website.


Monday’s early morning blast, the cause of which remains unknown, occurred 13 kilometres (eight miles) from the Iranian border in the eastern province of Agri, Turkey’s state-run BOTAS gas company said in a statement.


Militants from the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have sabotaged gas and oil pipelines in the region in the past as part of their 23-year armed campaign for self-rule in mainly Kurdish east and southeast Turkey.


AFP



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