Iran-India Gas Pipeline to Forge Ahead

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Plans to build a natural gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan will go ahead despite U.S. reservations about the project, an Indian energy expert said Wednesday. The 3.5 billion dollars project would benefit the United States which opposes other nations doing business with Iran amid pressure to dismantle its nuclear program by reducing India's dependency on oil and relieving high energy prices, said R.K. Pachauri, head of the privately run Energy and Resources Institute. lt's really to everyone's benefit," Pachauri told reporters in Geneva. I hope none of the governments chicken out.