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Dropped India from Chabahar rail project due to lack of active engagement: Iran

Dropped India from Chabahar rail project due to lack of active engagement: Iran

Dropped India from Chabahar rail project due to lack of active engagement: Iran
Jul 14, 2020 1 min, 49 secs

Iran remains open to all including India for collaboration and investment but Tehran expects future projects should be safeguarded from third party unilateral sanctions.

Iran dropped India from the Chabahar rail project because of “absence of active Indian engagement,” Iranian sources said on Tuesday, confirming The Hindu’s report.

Iran remains open to all including India for collaboration and investment but Tehran expects future projects should be safeguarded from third party unilateral sanctions.

“It was expected that in addition to the investment in Chabahar Port, India could also play a more crucial role in funding and constructing this strategic transit route from Chabahar to Zahedan and from Zahedan to Sarakhs at the border with Turkmenistan which in the absence of an active Indian engagement and partnership, currently is under construction by Iranian funding and engineering capacities,” said Iranian sources.

Though India secured exemption for the Chabahar port from U.S.

sanctions, bilateral ties with Iran took a hit in February after the riots in Delhi drew condemnation from Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.

That apart India-Iran energy trade was hit when India shut energy imports from Iran because of the threat of U.S.

India had firmed up the railway plans in May 2016 during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tehran to sign the Chabahar agreement with Iranian President Rouhani and Afghan President Ghani.

Iran, however, said the agreement was a “road map for future cooperation” between the two sides.

“Such agreements are fully in the line with Iran’s publicly declared ‘Look East Policy’ and suggest that Iran is determined to expand its relations with all Asian partners and in particular China and India as two friendly countries,” said the Iranian source, promising that India will remain among Iran’s friends and “would be welcomed as a friend.”.

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