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Pipelineistan Geopolitics at Work: Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Qatar.

This photograph taken on February 12, 2013 shows the construction site at Gwadar port in the Arabian Sea. (AFP Photo / Behram Baloch)Construction is nearing completion on a natural gas pipeline linking Iran and Pakistan, a project that portends a huge geopolitical shift. As regional powers strengthen ties in this key energy market, they’re looking to China, and away from the West.  Since the early 2000s, analysts and diplomats across Asia have been dreaming of a future Asian Energy Security Grid.  This – among other developments – is what it’s all about, the conclusion of the final stretch of the $7.5 billion, 1,100-mile natural gas Iran-Pakistan (IP) pipeline, starting from Iran’s giant South Pars field in the Persian Gulf, and expected to be online by the end of 2014  

http://www.globalresearch.ca/oil-pipeline-geopoltics-iran-pakistan-syria-qatar-pipelineistan-at-work/5331373

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