AbdolReza Faraji Raad; Maryam Baee Lashaki; Mohammad Taghi Jahanbakhsh
Abstract
The South Asia, particularly, India and Pakistan are large applicants of Iran and Turkmenistan which are the major holders of Natural Gas resources in the region and the world. Accordingly, recent years two pipelines have been proposed to supply natural gas to India and Pakistan: IPI (Peace) pipeline ...
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The South Asia, particularly, India and Pakistan are large applicants of Iran and Turkmenistan which are the major holders of Natural Gas resources in the region and the world. Accordingly, recent years two pipelines have been proposed to supply natural gas to India and Pakistan: IPI (Peace) pipeline which is the first path, began from the South West of Iran-Assaluye- and by crossing over the Eastern border gets to Pakistan, and then India. The second pipeline is TAPI (Trans-Afghan) which started from the gas fields of Turkmenistan and is terminated to India through Afghanistan and Pakistan Territory.This study wants to answer what will TAPI pipeline can effects on the national interests of Islamic Republic of Iran? The article's hypothesis is the TAPI pipeline providing the Natural gas of the Countries who want it and are on its path from another country's reserves has the negative effects on Islamic Republic of Iran's national interests.
The required data collected by documentary method. In the terms of the nature, it is an applicable research and a descriptive-analytic method and also comparative studies has been used to analyze the existing data.