{"id":660187,"date":"2026-04-16T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660187"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:18:47","slug":"us-says-waiver-that-allowed-india-to-buy-russian-oil-wont-be-renewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-says-waiver-that-allowed-india-to-buy-russian-oil-wont-be-renewed\/","title":{"rendered":"US says waiver that allowed India to buy Russian oil won&#8217;t be renewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington will not extend sanctions waivers allowing countries to purchase Russian and Iranian energy, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent announced on Wednesday. India was a key beneficiary of the sanctions waivers, which attracted significant criticism by US politicians for enriching loosening financial pressure on Moscow and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not be renewing the general license on Russian oil and we will not be renewing the general license on Iranian oil. That was oil that was on the water prior to March 11. So all that has been used,\u201d said Bessent at a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington will not extend sanctions waivers allowing countries to purchase Russian and Iranian energy, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent announced on Wednesday. India was a key beneficiary of the sanctions waivers, which attracted significant criticism by US politicians for enriching loosening financial pressure on Moscow and Tehran. \u201cWe will not be renewing the general license on Russian oil and we will not be renewing the general license on Iranian oil. That was oil that was on the water prior to March 11. So all that has been used,\u201d said Bessent at a press conference.<\/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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660187","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=660187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}