{"id":15870,"date":"2024-02-22T06:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/iran-accuses-israel-of-blowing-up-natural-gas-pipeline-in-sabotage-attack-provides-no-evidence\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T06:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:47:17","slug":"iran-accuses-israel-of-blowing-up-natural-gas-pipeline-in-sabotage-attack-provides-no-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/iran-accuses-israel-of-blowing-up-natural-gas-pipeline-in-sabotage-attack-provides-no-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran accuses Israel of blowing up natural gas pipeline in sabotage attack, provides no evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"paywall has-gated-overlay gated-article-body\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Iranian officials accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out a sabotage operation that blew up a natural gas pipeline last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji provided no evidence for his claim, but told Iranian state news that the attack was the latest in a series of Israeli efforts to destabilize Iranian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The explosion of the gas pipeline was an Israeli plot,\u2019 Owji said. \u2018The enemy intended to disturb gas service in the provinces and put people\u2019s gas distribution at risk.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The evil action and plot by the enemy was properly managed,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has not commented on the Iranian gas pipeline explosions.<\/p>\n<p>The blasts on Feb. 14 hit a natural gas pipeline running from Iran\u2019s western Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province up north to cities on the Caspian Sea. The roughly 1,270-kilometer (790-mile) pipeline begins in Asaluyeh, a hub for Iran\u2019s offshore South Pars gas field.<\/p>\n<p>Owji has also compared the attack to a series of mysterious and unclaimed assaults on gas pipelines in 2011 \u2014 including around the anniversary of Iran\u2019s 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The goal that the enemies were pursuing were to cut the gas in the major provinces of the country and it did not happen,\u2019 Owji said last week. \u2018Except for the number of villages that were near the gas transmission lines, no province suffered a cut.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israel has carried out attacks in Iran that have predominantly targeted its nuclear program. The head of the United Nations\u2019 nuclear watchdog warned earlier this month that Iran is \u2018not entirely transparent\u2019 regarding its atomic program, particularly after an official who once led Tehran\u2019s program announced the Islamic Republic has all the pieces for a weapon \u2018in our hands.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian officials accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out a sabotage operation that blew up a natural gas pipeline last week. Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji provided no evidence for his claim, but told Iranian state news that the attack was the latest in a series of Israeli efforts to destabilize Iranian infrastructure. \u2018The explosion <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}