The United States has sanctioned four India-based companies over their alleged involvement in trade and transportation of Iranian crude oil and petroleum products. As part of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure campaign” on Iran, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the US Department …
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While New Delhi does not recognize the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, reports say a Taliban “acting consul” is already in Mumbai. Can India move closer to Kabul as the regime’s ties with Pakistan grow more tense? A recent report by the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency stated that the Islamic fundamentalist regime has …
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