Iran Ready to Supply Lebanon with Electricity as of Next Week

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An official at the Iranian Energy Ministry revealed that his country will start providing Lebanon and Syria with electricity “soon,” Iran's state news agency IRNA reported.

“Supplying Lebanon with power was among the issues that Lebanon and Iran agreed on in the previous few months,” Abdolhamid Frazam Behboodi said.

He noted that Tehran is “ready to export electricity to Lebanon as of next week.”

However, a ministerial source ruled out to An Nahar newspaper the possibility of implementing the project.

The source said that the project needs three vital issues that aren’t available yet.

“The first is technical as setting the electricity lines through Aleppo (in Syria) and guarantying that they will not be sabotaged” is a difficult process amid the developments in the neighboring country.

More than 12,000 people, the majority of them civilians, have died since the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, according to the Observatory, including more than 900 killed since the April 12 truce.

The source said that the international sanctions imposed on Iran are another obstacle.

“Iran’s solution is to open a frozen account at the Central Bank, (a move that) would be considered a type of deception that the international community will not accept,” the source told the daily.

The United States and the European Union have imposed economic sanctions on Iran to pressure it over its disputed nuclear program.

The West and the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency suspect the program includes a drive to develop the capability to make atomic weapons, despite Iran's repeated denials.

The source added that the third issue is that the two countries didn’t agree on the quantity of exported megawatts from Iran.

Comments 7
Default-user-icon William (Guest) 14 May 2012, 09:49

deception, political move throw at it what you like you nay Sayers, all i know as a civilian as an average civilian that my food would no longer rott in my fridge and i wont wait 4 hours of my life under candles with my work frozen in time, so i say throw this bill payin law abiding citizen a cable and do as u like with your politics.

Default-user-icon ImpressedWithM8 (Guest) 14 May 2012, 11:38

We don't want your electricity, nor your militias, nor your ideology and vilayet el fakih. Just leave us alone and go take care of your own problems. Stop jailing journalists and repressing protesters. Give women the right to swim in the sea and not have to cover themselves with an abaya or else they would be also jailed. get rid of your khomeineh who claims to be god's representative on earth, and host all your naive Lebanese supporters because they have become too much of hypocrites for Lebanon. Maybe they should experience true khomeini culture.

So sad to see such a great dynasty end up like this.

Many will probably criticize this comment and mention Saudi - I feel the same way to about Saudi so there you go.

Default-user-icon John (Guest) 14 May 2012, 13:58

Kanaan, why go to a developed and democratic neighbor when you have Iran and HZB to go to?

Thumb geha 14 May 2012, 15:08

thanks but no thanks.... :)

Missing helicopter 14 May 2012, 15:19

Stop sabotaging our State first, urge your Hezb to pay their dues then there will be no need for your electricity.

Thumb shab 14 May 2012, 16:59

Whole of Lebanon

Thumb shab 14 May 2012, 16:59

Whole of Lebanon