India’s impatience with Trump’s threat: Oil imports from Russia will not be reduced – Mehr News Agency | Iranian and world news

Indian officials said they would continue to buy oil from Russia despite the threat of punishment by the US president, according to the Mehr News Agency.

According to the media report, government disobedience NarendraModi Trump’s threats show a disappointment of a relationship (between New Delhi and Washington) that was once praised, but Quickly He has deteriorated.

“The attitude in India is increasing in which officials should not allow highly unstable US policymaking to form New Delhi options to provide vital energy for its massive $ 1.5 billion population,” the New York Times added. Senior Indian officials said on Saturday that no change in New Delhi policy was made in this regard.

An Indian official also said that the government had not given “any command to oil companies” to reduce imports from Russia. RoundSwallowA spokesman for the Indian Foreign Ministry Before In a news conference refusing to respond directly to Trump’s threat, but said no change in Indian politics It will not be created against Russia.

Trump said in recent days that if India does not cut Russian crude imports, it will also impose an unknown penalty in India in addition to the tariff rate.

This is while the day Friday Trump seemed to repeat reports of a recent decline in Russian oil entry into India and told reporters: “I realize that India will no longer buy oil from Russia.” This is what I have heard. I don’t know if this is true. This is a good step.