The Iraqi electricity ministry signed Thursday a contract worth $365 million with an Iranian company nominated by the Tehran government to build a gas pipeline to supply Iraqi power plants with Iranian gas, the ministry spokesman said Thursday

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Musaab Al Mudaris said the pipeline would carry some 25 million cubic feet of Iranian gas a day that would be enough to generate some 2,500 megawatts.

The pipeline will pass through Iraq’s Mansouriyah gas field, near the Iranian border in the restive Diyala province and will feed three power plants; one in Sadr City in northern Baghdad and the other two in the northern and southern outskirts of the capital.