(VOVworld) - Iran will begin exporting natural gas to Iraq in June, Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company Hamid Reza Araqi said on Saturday.

Iran is expected to initially deliver 4 million cubic meters of gas per day to Iraq. (Photo: presstv.ir)

He said the gas flow will begin with a one-month delay after final tests on the pipeline are completed. Exports were planned to begin this month but “the two sides were not technically ready” for that, the official told reporters, stressing that the delay was not linked to political issues. 

Araqi said there are a series of contractual issues about the Iraqi payment which the two sides are discussing to clarify.