{"id":377036,"date":"2026-04-06T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377036\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:27:09","slug":"india-makes-first-iranian-oil-buy-in-seven-years-with-no-payment-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377036\/","title":{"rendered":"India makes first Iranian oil buy in seven years with no payment problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian refiners have purchased Iranian oil amid the Middle \u200bEast conflict that has disrupted supplies through \u200cthe Strait of Hormuz, the oil ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s third-biggest oil importer and consumer, India has not \u200breceived a cargo from Tehran since May \u200b2019, following US pressure not to buy Iranian \u2060crude, but supply disruptions from the US-Israel war have \u200bhit the South Asian nation hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amid Middle East \u200bsupply disruptions, Indian refiners have secured their crude oil requirements, including from Iran; and there is no payment hurdle for \u200bIranian crude imports,&#8221; the oil ministry said on \u200bX.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the United States temporarily removed sanctions on Iranian oil \u200cand \u2060refined products to ease supply shortages.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>India has secured its full requirements of crude oil for the coming months, the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India imports crude oil from \u200b40-plus countries, \u200bwith companies \u2060having full flexibility to source oil from different sources and geographies based on \u200bcommercial considerations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>India has also bought 44,000 metric \u200btons \u2060of Iranian liquefied petroleum gas loaded on a sanctioned vessel. The ministry said the vessel, which berthed at \u2060the \u200bwestern port of Mangalore on \u200bWednesday, is discharging the fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian refiners have purchased Iranian oil amid the Middle \u200bEast conflict that has disrupted supplies through \u200cthe Strait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-377036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}