Americans cannot tell us what to do in Chabahar: Indian envoy to Iran
India TodayIndia expressed its deep commitment to remain engaged and invested in Iran in an interaction Indian envoy to Iran, Gaddam Dharmendra, had with the Tehran Times on July 14. In a video clip of the interaction, that was tweeted by the Tehran Times but was deleted later, Ambassador Gaddam Dharmendra elaborated on the strengthened bilateral cooperation between the two countries despite US sanctions and asserted that India is the only country that is still trading in local Iranian currency, Rial. While Iran wants to go alone in the Farzad-B gas field project and it has been conveyed to New Delhi, on the Chabahar-Zahedan railway link project, India Today TV has learnt that New Delhi has objected to certain entities that Tehran wanted to make a part of the construction. Under the US sanctions, countries cannot work with a designated entity in Iran even if it is for certain development projects that have been waived from US scrutiny, which include the Chabahar port and the Chabahar-Zahedan rail link, a critical route to connect with Afghanistan bypassing Pakistan. After reports of Iran going ahead with the construction without India, Iran's railway minister said that Iran and India are "determined to continue" cooperation on the railway line.