{"id":276055,"date":"2019-05-25T06:20:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276055"},"modified":"2019-05-25T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:30:04","slug":"india-stops-iran-oil-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-stops-iran-oil-import\/","title":{"rendered":"India stops Iran oil import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has stopped importing oil from Iran since the American waivers granted to eight buyers expired early this month, New Delhi\u2019s envoy here said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Indian ambassador Harsh Vardhan Shringla said that India had also ended its oil imports from Venezuela despite feeling the pinch. <\/p>\n<p>The US had re-imposed its sanctions on Iran in November in view of its nuclear programme. On May 2, it ended the waivers that had allowed the top buyers of Iranian oil, including India, to continue their imports for six months. <\/p>\n<p>In January, the US imposed sanctions on Venezuela\u2019s most important global business \u2014 producing and selling crude oil \u2014 to try and force socialist President Nicolas Maduro out of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has stopped importing oil from Iran since the American waivers granted to eight buyers expired early this month, New Delhi\u2019s envoy here said on Thursday. Indian ambassador Harsh Vardhan Shringla said that India had also ended its oil imports from Venezuela despite feeling the pinch. The US had re-imposed its sanctions on Iran in November in view of its nuclear programme. On May 2, it ended the waivers that had allowed the top buyers of Iranian oil, including India, to continue their imports for six months. In January, the US imposed sanctions on Venezuela\u2019s most important global business \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276055","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}