IRAN TO TRANSFER GAS TO ARMENIA SOON

Persian Journal, Iran
Sept 12 2006

Mullah-run majlis speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said on Tuesday
that the first gas pipeline to transfer gas from Iran to Armenia is
scheduled to become operational in the coming months.

Addressing reporters, Haddad-Adel also known as "Gholam Shire’i"
in majlis for his addiction to opium, said that the progress of the
gas project is supervised by the presidents of Iran and Armenia.

Haddad-Adel said that feasibility studies on the second gas pipeline
is currently underway.

He referred to projects on transfer of energy, development and port of
industrial machinery as strategies aiming to boost trade exchanges
between the two states and urged that tourism and investment by
private sector should also be facilitated.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the speaker said that establishment of
relations with the Central Asian states and Caucasia has been on the
agenda of Iran’s foreign policy over the past 15 years.