“We acknowledged that this would be an economic sacrifice that the people of India and that the economy of India would have to make,” Earnest said.
Acknowledging India’s “substantial sacrifice” to implement sanctions against Iran, the US has said there would be “no basis” for countries like India to continue with the curbs if the Iranian nuclear deal is scuttled by the Congress.
President Barack Obama had specifically sent his then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to convince India to join the US-led international sanctions against Iran, following which New Delhi took steps to reduce its import of oil from Iran that had considerable impact on the Indian economy, a fact acknowledged by the White House. Details