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US "strongly opposes" a rival pipeline from Iran

LONDON, August 16 (IranMania) - According to an AFP report, Washington is pushing for a new gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and "strongly opposes" a rival pipeline from Iran, US diplomat Steven Mann said Tuesday after meeting with Turkman President Saparmurat Niyazov.
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The project to build a pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan came a step closer to realization recently with completion of a feasibility study sponsored by the Asian Development Bank, but remains in doubt due to ongoing instability along its route, particularly in Afghanistan.

Aside from security issues, building a pipeline through Afghanistan's mountains would be hugely expensive and technically difficult, probably requiring government subsidies, said Chris Weafer, an analyst at Russia's Alfa Bank.
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The US also has strategic interests in such a pipeline, Weafer said, including undermining the potential profitability of a pipeline Russian state monopoly Gazprom plans to build from Iran to Pakistan.
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In addition, Weafer said that "getting Turkmen gas out to India would reduce Turkmenistan's ability to give gas to China or Russia."
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