{"id":303332,"date":"2018-09-27T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303332"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:32:58","slug":"eam-swaraj-meets-iranian-counterpart-discusses-us-sanctions-against-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/eam-swaraj-meets-iranian-counterpart-discusses-us-sanctions-against-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"EAM Swaraj meets Iranian Counterpart, discusses US Sanctions against Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/eam-swaraj-meets-iranian-counterpart-discusses-us-sanctions-against-tehran\/sushma-iran\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303333\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303333 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sushma-iran-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-iran-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-iran-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-iran-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-iran-696x525.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-iran-557x420.jpg 557w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-iran.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a>Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj held talks with Javad Zarif, her Iranian counterpart, and discussed bilateral issues, including the US sanctions against the major crude exporter which are set to be implemented in November this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">EAM Swaraj and Iranian counterpart held the meeting on the sidelines of the 73rd UN General Assembly session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both the leaders also discussed the status of Iran nuclear deal with the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Raveesh Kumar, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson said, &#8220;On the issue of sanctions, India remains engaged with all stakeholders who are part of the process and Iran is one of them. So, it was natural that the issue of sanctions did come up during the meeting.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We heard them out, we also explained our position. It is important to understand that as far as the sanctions on Iran go, we are also engaged with other stakeholders and countries for example the US as well,&#8221; spokesperson Kumar added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Spokesperson Kumar described the bilateral talks with Iran as a &#8220;good meeting&#8221;, saying the two nations share strong civilization bonds and go back a long way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The US has told India and other nations to cut oil imports from Iran to &#8220;zero&#8221; by November 4 or face sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj held talks with Javad Zarif, her Iranian counterpart, and discussed bilateral issues, including the US sanctions against the major crude exporter which are set to be implemented in November this year. EAM Swaraj and Iranian counterpart held the meeting on the sidelines of the 73rd UN General Assembly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,395,5255,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303335,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303332\/revisions\/303335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}