Iran has resumed pumping natural gas to Turkey after a week-long halt caused by a blast in the pipeline

Iran has resumed pumping natural gas to Turkey after a week-long halt caused by a blast in the pipeline, says an Iranian official.

"The export of gas to Turkey, halted due to explosion, was resumed at 14:26 p.m. local time (0956GMT) on Thursday" SHANA, the Iranian Oil Ministry's news agency, quoted the spokesman for the National Iranian Gas Company, Majid Boujarzadeh, as saying.

The supply of natural gas from Iran to Turkey was disrupted on August 11 after an explosion damaged a section of the gas pipeline in Turkey's eastern province of Agri, which borders Iran.

No one has claimed responsibility for the blast that bears the hallmarks of the ones carried out by the militants with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).