Iran not disappointed with India for not importing oil from Tehran: Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India has a strong political and cultural relationship with Iran and dismissed reports that Tehran is disappointed at New Delhi for not buying oil from the Persian gulf country due to US sanctions.
“I don’t agree with you that Iranians are disappointed. I think Iranians are realists. There is a larger global situation in which they are operating, we are operating. In the world that I inhabit, we frankly understand each other’s compulsions and possibilities,” Jaishankar said at an event organised by US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) in Washington on Tuesday.
The minister was responding to a question that Iranians were disappointed with India’s decision not to buy oil from them to avoid American sanctions regime.
