{"id":274429,"date":"2019-05-15T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274429"},"modified":"2019-05-15T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T06:05:35","slug":"delhi-will-decide-on-purchasing-oil-from-iran-after-polls-sushma-swaraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-will-decide-on-purchasing-oil-from-iran-after-polls-sushma-swaraj\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi will decide on purchasing oil from Iran after polls: Sushma Swaraj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday kept open the option of purchasing oil from Iran, with foreign minister Sushma Swaraj informing her visiting Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif that New Delhi will take a decision after the national polls come to an end on 23 May.<\/p>\n<p>Zarif arrived in India, one of the biggest buyers of Iranian oil, on Monday amid rising tensions in the Gulf following the US withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and re-imposing sanctions on Tehran aimed at bringing it back to the negotiating table on its nuclear programme. Washington has despatched an aircraft carrier and stealth bombers to the region triggering fears of a conflict breaking out.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iran\u2019s Mehr news agency, Zarif \u201cevaluated his meeting with his Indian counterpart \u2018positive and constructive\u2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday kept open the option of purchasing oil from Iran, with foreign minister Sushma Swaraj informing her visiting Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif that New Delhi will take a decision after the national polls come to an end on 23 May. Zarif arrived in India, one of the biggest buyers of Iranian oil, on Monday amid rising tensions in the Gulf following the US withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and re-imposing sanctions on Tehran aimed at bringing it back to the negotiating table on its nuclear programme. Washington has despatched an aircraft carrier and stealth [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274429","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=274429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}