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India, a key U.S. ally, plans to ignore Trump's Iran sanctions

29 May 2018 - 16:45


Bloomberg | and President Donald Trump may have ordered the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran, but one of Asia’s biggest oil importers -- and a strategic partner of the U.S. -- plans on ignoring them.

India, a long-time buyer of oil from both Iran and Venezuela, only complies with United Nations mandated sanctions and not those imposed by one country on another, said foreign minister Sushma Swaraj at a press conference in New Delhi on Monday.

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