Iran wants India to speed up the development of the Chabahar Port as well as resume its purchases of crude in the wake of the Saudi-Iran agreement.
Iranian President Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi is likely to take the talks forward when he arrives in India in September for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation where Iran will be formally included as a member.
Giving the examples of Saudi Arabia and the UAE which along with other Arab states are now planning to invest in Iran, the Iranian Ambassador to India Iraj Elahi hinted that India should get over its trepidation of American sanctions.
