Javad Zarif’s India trip comes amid tensions between Tehran and Washington over the killing of senior Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike.
Jaishankar is expected to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani days after the US provided a rare exemption to India from sanctions on the Chabahar port in Iran.
Iranian Ambassador to India Ali Chegeni has said Tehran may look at other markets to procure soymeal, rice if India does not resume normal trade ties with Iran.
India, the second largest buyer of Iranian oil, halted imports from the country this month after a US deadline against continued crude trade kicked in.
Iran foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in New Delhi Tuesday, less than two weeks after the US ended the exemptions from sanctions granted to India to import oil from Iran.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Clearly, it is wrongly.
Despite the fact-free, prejudicial, anti-India media international coverage, it is remarkable how little influence and power these global left-jihadi forces actually have. India should keep uncovering the left-jihadi conspiracy through the judicial process. Honest and open-minded people will make up their own minds based on facts. This cannot be said of the fact-free, prejudicial, disloyal opposition at home and abroad.
Rightly or wrongly, these issues are resonating globally.
Clearly, it is wrongly.
Despite the fact-free, prejudicial, anti-India media international coverage, it is remarkable how little influence and power these global left-jihadi forces actually have. India should keep uncovering the left-jihadi conspiracy through the judicial process. Honest and open-minded people will make up their own minds based on facts. This cannot be said of the fact-free, prejudicial, disloyal opposition at home and abroad.