Iran plans to sell natural gas to Syria from 2009, as the two nations that oppose the US policy in West Asia forge closer ties. | |
| Syrian Oil Minister Sufian al-Alao and his Iranian counterpart Gholamhossein Nozari signed a "memorandum of understanding" in Tehran yesterday to sell 2 billion to 3 billion cubic meters a year (70 billion to 106 billion cubic feet) of Iranian gas to Syria, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said. |
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| Iran, holder of the world's second-largest natural gas reserves behind Russia, would deliver the fuel through the extension of an existing pipeline that runs to Turkey, the Iranian Oil Ministry said on its website today. |
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| "The project will deepen the ties between Damascus and Tehran and have a positive impact on the two states' economy,'' al-Alao said, according to the website. |
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