{"id":270879,"date":"2019-04-24T05:46:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T05:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=270879"},"modified":"2019-04-24T05:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T05:46:54","slug":"us-waivers-for-purchasing-oil-from-iran-nears-india-in-discussion-with-other-countries-to-meet-its-energy-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-waivers-for-purchasing-oil-from-iran-nears-india-in-discussion-with-other-countries-to-meet-its-energy-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"US waivers for purchasing oil from Iran nears, India in discussion with other countries to meet its energy needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the Trump administration\u2019s decision of ending waivers to buy Iranian oil, on Tuesday India said that it is \u201cadequately prepared\u201d to deal with the impact of the US decision. Presently, Iran oil is fulfilling around 10 per cent of India\u2019s energy requirement.<\/p>\n<p>An official statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), stated \u201cGovernment has noted the announcement by the US government to discontinue the Significant Reduction Exemption (SRE) to all purchasers of crude oil from Iran and it will continue to work with Washington and other partner countries to find \u201call possible ways\u201d to protect its energy and economic security interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, when Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale was in Washington DC for the India-US Strategic Dialogue he had during his meetings with the top officials discussed possibility of extending the waivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the Trump administration\u2019s decision of ending waivers to buy Iranian oil, on Tuesday India said that it is \u201cadequately prepared\u201d to deal with the impact of the US decision. Presently, Iran oil is fulfilling around 10 per cent of India\u2019s energy requirement. An official statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), stated \u201cGovernment has noted the announcement by the US government to discontinue the Significant Reduction Exemption (SRE) to all purchasers of crude oil from Iran and it will continue to work with Washington and other partner countries to find \u201call possible ways\u201d to protect [&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":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270879","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=270879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}