{"id":282731,"date":"2019-07-17T06:27:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282731"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:30:03","slug":"iran-set-to-invest-in-chennai-petroleum-corporation-says-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-set-to-invest-in-chennai-petroleum-corporation-says-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran set to invest in Chennai Petroleum Corporation, says ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Iran is ready to invest in the expansion of a South Indian refinery, an Iranian official said in New Delhi on Tuesday, as the country seeks new avenues of growth amid debilitating U.S. sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>Iran has seen a massive drop in export earnings which is eating into funds for social development. This has raised questions that it might not invest in the expansion of a refinery in South India where it already holds a minority stake. <\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s participation has also been questioned after India cut back its Iranian crude oil imports following U.S. sanctions and stopped them completely from May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Iran is ready to invest in the expansion of a South Indian refinery, an Iranian official said in New Delhi on Tuesday, as the country seeks new avenues of growth amid debilitating U.S. sanctions. Iran has seen a massive drop in export earnings which is eating into funds for social development. This has raised questions that it might not invest in the expansion of a refinery in South India where it already holds a minority stake. Iran&#8217;s participation has also been questioned after India cut back its Iranian crude oil imports following U.S. sanctions and stopped them completely [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282731","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\/282731","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=282731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}