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Will the Trump Administration Grant the Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Project a Sanctions Waiver?

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Will the Trump Administration Grant the Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Project a Sanctions Waiver?

If Pakistan does not keep its part of the pipeline agreement with Iran, it will have to shell out a potential $18 billion to Tehran.

Will the Trump Administration Grant the Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Project a Sanctions Waiver?
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Pakistan’s Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik announced in December that he planned to request a sanctions waiver for the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project from the Trump administration.

Signed in 2009, the gas pipeline agreement between Iran and Pakistan involved the construction of a 2,775-kilometer-long gas pipeline, 1,172 km of which would run in Iran and the rest in Pakistan. The goal was to bring Iranian oil to Pakistan to address the latter’s energy shortages while earning Iran revenue from gas exports. However, the project, envisaged as a “Peace Pipeline,” has become a legal and geopolitical minefield.

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