Iran struggles to meet gas demand

Iran has cut gas exports to Turkey after high domestic consumption and a halt in supplies from Turkmenistan.

About a dozen Iranian towns and cities have been left without gas in freezing weather, an Iranian news agency reports on Tuesday.
Heavy snowfalls and temperatures in Iran’s north plummeting to -10C have increased demand.

“After the sharp falls in temperature over the last days and the halt in deliveries by Turkmenistan, exports of gas to Turkey have been cut to a minimum,” an Iranian source told the Fars news agency.

The source said the volume of gas exports to Turkey had been cut from 20 million cubic meters to five million cubic meters.

Al Jazeera