India was traced to private to cut mains led lighting imports of Iranian oil

World Wide Web reporter Zhong Weidong reported that the United States announced on March 20 to be financial sanctions against the 11 “significant” to reduce the import of Iranian  led high bay oil countries, India and other countries were excluded from the list of “exempt” outside. The United States move to India “on tenterhooks”, and then exposed by the media in India is private to reduce the import of Iranian oil, to  mains led lighting fight to the U.S. sanctions, “immunity”.

The Times of India reported that on March 21, after the United States to exclude from “exempt” list, India has been on tenterhooks. According to the terms of U.S. sanctions, the country to buy Iranian oil in the first half of this year, “significant” decrease in imports would have been sanctions, New Delhi from this period, nearly eight weeks left.
The report also quoted a high-level U.S. government officials as saying that Obama may impose sanctions, the relevant time period from June 28 brought forward to March 30, only to India a week to decide how to choose. Although the U.S. does not specify these countries must cut imports of Iranian oil, but the Obama administration through informal channels that the proportion of about 15%, and Japan to mains led lighting be commended because of the reduction of 15% -22% of oil imports from Iran .
In addition, Reuters reported in 22, in open defiance of the West India before the pressure of sanctions applied to Iran, and then be excluded from the list of “exempt” by financial sanctions outside. But India is now privately substantially reduce the import of Iranian oil.
According to sources, the Indian government, privately urged the state-owned oil refineries to reduce 15 percent of oil imports from Iran, and that the proportion of India from being U.S. sanctions. Reuters expected to Indian refineries need to cut 20 percent of overall imports in order to be exempt from sanctions.
The report said that India’s state-owned oil refinery is planning to reduce the scale of the contract with mains led lighting  Iran, and has begun to Saudi Arabia and Iraq to seek a new source of oil supply. India to buy Iranian oil most Indian Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited and even plans to cut its purchases by 44%. In this regard, New Delhi, the political current affairs commentators pointed out that India is still in Europe and America stand together, “and” India, the government more than ever the next government, pro-US “Shi Guha • Takuerta.