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India to go ahead with the Iran gas pipeline: Deora

Unperturbed by concerns raised by the US on the proposed 7.2 billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, India today made it clear it will go ahead with the project.

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MUMBAI: Unperturbed by concerns raised by the US on the proposed 7.2 billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, India today made it clear it will go ahead with the project.

"I don't see any problem (on the IPI pipeline). No country can debar India from this project. We are committed to this," Petroleum Minister Murli Deora told reporters here.

Deora, however, did not give any timeframe for the project to start.

"I can't give any timeframe. The advisors have been appointed and they are preparing the feasibility report. It is too early to say at this stage," he said.

Deora, who recently met US Energy Secretary Samuel W Bodman in New Delhi, parried questions on whether the project will affect the progress on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal.

Bodman had subsequenty said the US was worried revenues from the proposed pipeline could be used by Iran to fund its nuclear programme, but felt this issue would not affect Indo-US ties on civilian nuclear cooperation.

Bodman had also said Iran's quest for nuclear weapons and the role the pipeline could play in it was worrying the US.

But he had also said the project would not affect ties between India and the US or the civilian nuclear cooperation as these were two different issues.

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