TEHRAN – National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC)’s deputy director for planning affairs said some 1,120 cities across Iran are already joined to the country’s national gas network and by the yearend the number will reach 1,162 that is 98 percent of the country’s cities.

According to Gholam Reza Mashayekhi, of the 53,000 villages in the country, 45,000 have the potential to join the national gas network. Currently about 24,000 villages, that is 78 percent of the country’s total number of villages are connected to the national network.

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