The port has been a centrepiece of India’s regional strategic ambitions. Now, those hopes are sinking after a US sanctions waiver expired.
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New Delhi, India — Relations between the United States and India are at a crossroads yet again: this time, over New Delhi’s decade-long investment in Iran’s Chabahar Port.
India’s most ambitious connectivity project in its extended neighbourhood now potentially faces a dead end after a US waiver on sanctions imposed on the project expired on Sunday, with no signs of its revival from Washington. The port has been the centrepiece of India’s hopes of building a trade and transit corridor with landlocked Afghanistan and Central Asia.
