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Turkey Feels Iran Chill
(Asian Times-Hong Kong) Iason Athanasiadis - Iran's supply of natural gas to Turkey was inexplicably slashed by 70% last Friday, in one of the coldest months of the year. On the same day, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul had called for greater Iranian "transparency" over Tehran's nuclear program. "We don't want a new nuclear power in the region," a Turkish diplomat in Tehran said. Turkey is the only country in Iran's vicinity on which the U.S. has prepositioned tactical nuclear weapons (an estimated 90) that it could deploy against Iranian facilities.