{"id":272251,"date":"2019-05-01T06:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T06:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272251"},"modified":"2019-05-01T06:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T06:41:21","slug":"sushma-asks-u-s-for-iran-oil-import-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sushma-asks-u-s-for-iran-oil-import-waiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushma asks U.S. for Iran oil import waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the weekend and asked for a waiver for continued import of Iranian crude after the May 2 deadline imposed by the U.S. administration, a source has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth sides discussed issues relevant to bilateral ties including the waiver for energy from Iran,\u201d said a source about a telephone discussion between Ms. Swaraj and Mr. Pompeo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The phone call came days before the U.S. sanctions on import of Iranian crude comes into effect on May 2 when all energy imports from Iran must be stopped by the importing nations. It is learnt that Ms. Swaraj urged the U.S. Secretary of State to consider India\u2019s current situation, highlighting that the vast amount of Iranian energy cannot be replaced overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the weekend and asked for a waiver for continued import of Iranian crude after the May 2 deadline imposed by the U.S. administration, a source has confirmed. \u201cBoth sides discussed issues relevant to bilateral ties including the waiver for energy from Iran,\u201d said a source about a telephone discussion between Ms. Swaraj and Mr. Pompeo on Saturday. The phone call came days before the U.S. sanctions on import of Iranian crude comes into effect on May 2 when all energy imports from Iran must be stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272251","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}