The Iranian ambassador to India, Sayed Mahdi Nabizadeh, spoke to Outlook on the economic and diplomatic fallout of US sanctions. Excerpts:
Have US pressures impacted Indo-Iranian economic relations?
What about the sbi not honouring Iranian letters of credit (LC)?
The Essar Group has changed its plan to invest in a refinery project in Iran due to US pressure...
Till two years back, India was optimistic that Iran would emerge as a major gas supplier. But now there seems to be some reluctance on your part to finalise the MoUs....
India's position is that the deal for import of 7.5 million tones of LNG was sealed. Why is there a divergence of views?
And the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline project...in view of the new US intelligence assessment?
What of India's two votes against Iran in the IAEA? Do you agree with Pranab Mukherjee's statement that India acted in Iran's best interests?
