Iran has used both oil and gas as the means to bring his neighbors together. Unity is the most threatening weapon Iran has used against the divide-and-war Western policy of the past 60 years. Iran also proposed to build a pipeline through Pakistan to India, and dropped the original plan of bypassing Pakistan through the Indian ocean, in order to bring the three nations together. Through US pressure, the builders of the pipeline withdrew, Pakistan has been forced to postpone decision and now it is too unstable thanks to Obama's policy, and India finds Pakistan unreliable. These are the details that are not properly explained to the American people. Here Iran is uniting Iraq, Syria and Lebanon which would reduce tension as it produces interdependency.
We claim we want stability in ME, but there is no record of a single thing we have done to promote stability in 60 years of involvement.

With the current upheaval in the Near East, the logistical difficulties would be formidable.