Iran has begun building a new $10billion gas pipeline connecting it to Syria, the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars reported today.
The 225km pipe, the first phase of a bigger 1,500km line, will take the country’s gas reserves to Iraq and Syria, a provincial official is reported as saying.
It will be completed by June 2013 with an investment of $3billion (£1.9bn).
Iran has the world’s second largest natural gas reserves after Russia, according to the US Energy Information Administration.