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Here's John Bachelor.

Four capitals in the Indian Ocean Basin,

Islamabad of Pakistan, Tehran of Iran,

Riyadh of Saudi Arabia,

and Delhi of India. Four capitals, business together, but not yet.

I welcome Arifrafique of the than a decade out of date and yet.

A very good evening to you.

I've been looking around the region following the attack by Iran directly

onto Israel firing in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Tel Aviv.

And then the answer, whatever it was, that satisfied both sides by Israel to Iran.

However, Iran has been a rascal these many months since the attack by Hamas on Israel.

And Iran has been fueling, we're told, the bad actors of the region, Hezbollah, the Huthis, Hamas, we're also told the Kataab

Hezbollah of Iraq and other bad actors in the whole region except for Iran has natural resources

that are for sale and part of that sale is what we're talking about right now a pipeline what pipeline to where and what is Iran doing

about it good evening to you hi John thank you for having me on well the pipeline

is the Iran-box-son gas pipeline. It's a natural gas pipeline that

agreement was signed in 2009. It was supposed to be completed by 2014 and the

idea is for energy-rich Iran to export its excess natural gas to Pakistan, which is a fast grow, which is a large and growing Asian economy, which is a net energy importer.

And so it desperately needs natural gas to fuel its power plants, to heat its homes,

and to supply its industry.

And so it has looked for different sources of natural gas and

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