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Iran, Pakistan Go Ahead With Pipeline Despite Finance Problems 

By – Theodore Tsakiris 

On 31 August, at the Non-Aligned Movement Summit held in Tehran, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, reiterated their desire to complete the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline. The 8.7 bcm/y capacity project, which is an extension of Iran’s IGAT-8 pipeline, was 75% completed by early June 2012, (MEES,...