WASHINGTON: In a transfer that can have implications on India's energy safety, US President Donald Trump on Monday determined to not grant sanctions exemptions to any oil consumers of Iran, additional squeezing Tehran's most sensible export commodity.
"President Donald J. Trump has decided not to reissue Significant Reduction Exceptions (SREs) when they expire in early May. This decision is intended to bring Iran's oil exports to zero, denying the regime its principal source of revenue," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders mentioned.
The US re-imposed sanctions on Iran remaining November, after President Trump pulled out of the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
The US' transfer which is observed as an escalation of President Trump administration's "maximum pressure" on Iran comes after it remaining yr gave transient 180-days waiver to eight countries, including India, China, Turkey and Japan amongst others.
As a result of this choice, all countries including India would have to deliver down its import of oil from Iran via May 2. Greece, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have already heavily lowered their oil imports from Iran.
Iran is India's third-largest oil provider in the back of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Iran provided 18.four million tonnes of crude oil all through April 2017 and January 2018 (first 10 months of 2017-18 fiscal).
The US, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, three of the world's great energy manufacturers, along with its pals and allies, are committed to making sure that global oil markets stay adequately provided, Sanders mentioned.
"We have agreed to take timely action to assure that global demand is met as all Iranian oil is removed from the market," she mentioned.
In a remark, Sanders mentioned the Trump Administration and its allies are made up our minds to sustain and amplify the maximum financial power campaign against Iran to finish the regime's destabilising process threatening the United States, its companions and allies, and safety within the Middle East.
"The President's decision to eliminate all SREs follows the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organisation, demonstrating the US' commitment to disrupting Iran's terror network and changing the regime's malign behaviour. We welcome the support of our friends and allies for this effort," Sanders mentioned.
India and China are lately the biggest importers of Iranian oil. If they do not pass along with Trump's demands, that would purpose tensions in both bilateral relationships and spill over into other problems, like trade, the Washington Post reported.
"President Donald J. Trump has decided not to reissue Significant Reduction Exceptions (SREs) when they expire in early May. This decision is intended to bring Iran's oil exports to zero, denying the regime its principal source of revenue," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders mentioned.
The US re-imposed sanctions on Iran remaining November, after President Trump pulled out of the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
The US' transfer which is observed as an escalation of President Trump administration's "maximum pressure" on Iran comes after it remaining yr gave transient 180-days waiver to eight countries, including India, China, Turkey and Japan amongst others.
As a result of this choice, all countries including India would have to deliver down its import of oil from Iran via May 2. Greece, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have already heavily lowered their oil imports from Iran.
Iran is India's third-largest oil provider in the back of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Iran provided 18.four million tonnes of crude oil all through April 2017 and January 2018 (first 10 months of 2017-18 fiscal).
The US, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, three of the world's great energy manufacturers, along with its pals and allies, are committed to making sure that global oil markets stay adequately provided, Sanders mentioned.
"We have agreed to take timely action to assure that global demand is met as all Iranian oil is removed from the market," she mentioned.
In a remark, Sanders mentioned the Trump Administration and its allies are made up our minds to sustain and amplify the maximum financial power campaign against Iran to finish the regime's destabilising process threatening the United States, its companions and allies, and safety within the Middle East.
"The President's decision to eliminate all SREs follows the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organisation, demonstrating the US' commitment to disrupting Iran's terror network and changing the regime's malign behaviour. We welcome the support of our friends and allies for this effort," Sanders mentioned.
India and China are lately the biggest importers of Iranian oil. If they do not pass along with Trump's demands, that would purpose tensions in both bilateral relationships and spill over into other problems, like trade, the Washington Post reported.
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