{"id":31147,"date":"2018-10-27T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31147"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:49:44","slug":"old-friends-on-india-iran-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/old-friends-on-india-iran-bilateral-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Old friends: on India-Iran bilateral ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/old-friends\/article22800656.ece\"><b>Old friends: on India-Iran bilateral ties<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In bilateral terms, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s visit to India was <\/span><b>perfect in content.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Major takeaways from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s visit to India: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The visit came amid uncertainty over the U.S.\u2019s next move on Iran, given the T<\/span><b>rump administration\u2019s line on the Iran nuclear deal. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India and Iran <\/span><b>signed agreements and memorandums of understanding <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on a wide variety of issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the announcements was the decision to <\/span><b>award India the contract to operate the ChabaharShahid Beheshti port<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> terminal after the project is completed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>No announcement <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was made on the <\/span><b>Farzad-B gas field <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that India has expressed an interest in, the joint statement indicates that positive deliberations may follow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were discussions on <\/span><b>enhancing trade and investment and<\/b> <b>ease of doing business <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between India and Iran.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The discussion also included a <\/span><b>double taxation avoidance agreement <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and an expert group to recommend trade remedy measures. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India announced that it would allow <\/span><b>Indian investment in Iran<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be done in <\/span><b>rupee<\/b> <b>terms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two leaders also drew broad strokes highlighting the <\/span><b>importance<\/b> <b>of<\/b> <b>bilateral<\/b> <b>ties<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between the two countries, stressing the strategic imperative for their growth. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iran endorsed India\u2019s <\/span><b>bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the veto, and praised India as a \u201cliving museum of religious diversity\u201d. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The joint statement issued contained tough language on the <\/span><b>\u201csanctuaries for terrorism\u201d,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an issue important to both countries. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way ahead:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be important to see what, if any, implications the Indian overtures would have on <\/span><b>India\u2019s ties with the U.S. and its recently upgraded relations with Israel. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it is crucial that India maintain a <\/span><b>steady course on its strategic interests with Iran<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old friends: on India-Iran bilateral ties Context: In bilateral terms, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s visit to India was perfect in content. Major takeaways from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s visit to India: The visit came amid uncertainty over the U.S.\u2019s next move on Iran, given the Trump administration\u2019s line on the Iran nuclear deal. After his&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/old-friends-on-india-iran-bilateral-ties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old friends: on India-Iran bilateral ties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704909151},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}