Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Asif Ali Zardari, Yousuf Raza Gilani Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center left, talks on a hand-held radio to order the official start of construction on a pipeline to transfer natural gas from Iran to Pakistan, as his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, center right, looks, in Chabahar, southeastern Iran, near the Pakistani border, . The leaders of Pakistan and Iran on Monday pushed ahead with a pipeline to bring natural gas from Iran despite American opposition, with the Iranian president saying the West has no right to block the project. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stands at left