{"id":18372,"date":"2024-02-14T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18372"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:26:08","slug":"iran-condemns-terrorist-attack-on-gas-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/02\/iran-condemns-terrorist-attack-on-gas-pipelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran condemns \u2018terrorist\u2019 attack on gas pipelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; An Iranian government official has blamed \u201cterrorism and sabotage\u201d for twin explosions on gas pipelines overnight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While there are few details about the blasts, one occurred on the mainline gas route running from Iran\u2019s central Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province north to major gas fields in the Caspian Sea, state media reported on Wednesday. The other explosion was reported in the southern province of Fars.<\/p>\n<p>The blasts come amid raised tension as Israel\u2019s war in Gaza threatens to spill over across the region. While Tehran has not specified who it suspects, it has linked other such incidents to Israel over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis terrorist act of sabotage occurred at 1am (21:30 GMT) on Wednesday morning in the network of national gas transmission pipelines in two regions of the country,\u201d oil minister Javad Owji told state TV.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in Asaluyeh, a hub for Iran\u2019s offshore South Pars gas field, the first pipeline runs 1,270 kilometres (790 miles) to the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Authorities denied reports that the incident caused gas cuts to industries and offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope the pipeline will be repaired and will become operational as soon as possible,\u201d Saeed Aghili, the manager of Iran\u2019s gas network control center, told Iranian state television.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>SOURCE: AL JAZEERA<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; An Iranian government official has blamed \u201cterrorism and sabotage\u201d for twin explosions on gas pipelines overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,179,194,982,233,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-economy-business","category-world","category-international","category-iran","category-headline"],"views":54,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18378,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions\/18378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}