WASHINGTON: Hours after India signed a 10-year contract to operate Iran’s Chabahar port, the US warned that its sanctions on Tehran remain in place and “anyone” considering business deals with the Islamic Republic needs to be “aware of the potential risk”.
At the same time, the State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson, Vedant Patel, said that it will let the Indian government speak on its foreign policy goals.
“I will let the government of India speak to its own foreign policy goals vis-à-vis the Chabahar port as well as its own bilateral relationship with Iran,” Patel said in the department’s daily press briefing on Monday.
But, he added, “Any entity, anyone considering business deals with Iran, they need to be aware of the potential risk they are opening themselves up to, potential risk of sanctions.”
