{"id":264046,"date":"2019-03-14T04:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264046"},"modified":"2019-03-14T04:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:54:50","slug":"india-hopes-us-will-extend-waiver-of-sanctions-imposed-on-iranian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-hopes-us-will-extend-waiver-of-sanctions-imposed-on-iranian-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"India hopes US will extend waiver of sanctions imposed on Iranian oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is hopeful that the US will extend the waiver from sanctions on its oil imports from Iran when the current six-month period expires in early May following Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale\u2019s talks with senior officials in Washington this week. The exemption was a key item on the agenda when Gokhale met US Secretary of State Mark Pompeo and his counterpart in the US State Department, ET has learnt. India\u2019s optimism stems from a series of meetings following a reduction in oil imports from Iran, officials indicated. <\/p>\n<p>The US imposed sanctions on Iran in November after abrogating a nuclear deal in a dispute over Tehran\u2019s nuclear and missile ambitions, although India and other countries were exempted from the curbs. Stable oil prices are important for the Modi government as it seeks re-election in polls starting in April. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is hopeful that the US will extend the waiver from sanctions on its oil imports from Iran when the current six-month period expires in early May following Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale\u2019s talks with senior officials in Washington this week. The exemption was a key item on the agenda when Gokhale met US Secretary of State Mark Pompeo and his counterpart in the US State Department, ET has learnt. India\u2019s optimism stems from a series of meetings following a reduction in oil imports from Iran, officials indicated. The US imposed sanctions on Iran in November after abrogating a nuclear deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}