Iran Press/ Asia: “Following the explosion of the export gas pipeline, relief workers were dispatched to the land border inside Iran, but it turned out to be on Turkish soil,” Rasool Nourinasab said.
Director of National Iranian Gas Company in charge of dispatching Mehdi Jamshidi Dana also said that Iranian gas export to Turkey stopped on Tuesday due to pipeline explosion on Turkish soil.
Mehdi Jamshidi Dana told IRNA that the Iranian gas pipeline has exploded several times on Turkish soil, adding that in most cases, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) did so, it is also likely that the group has carried out the blast.
He added that the explosion occurred near the Iranian border and stopped gas exports to Turkey from 06:50 Tuesday morning and the Turkish side has not been responsive to it so far. We have informed them of the explosion and are waiting for their response.
Turkish media reported that the explosion of the Iran-Turkey gas pipeline took place at 6 on Tuesday morning near the Bazargan border, the flames of which reached a height of 2 meters after the explosion.
The pipeline, which carries around 10 billion cubic meters of Iranian gas to Turkey annually, frequently came under attack by Kurdish militants since the 1990s and up until 2013, when a ceasefire was established.
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