Bloomberg reported that India has informed the United States that easing sanctions on oil from Iran and Venezuela could help India reduce its oil imports from Russia, following U.S. restrictions that had previously led India to suspend oil purchases from Iran and Venezuela in 2019 and 2024. The United States has not yet made an official response.
Comments: From its own interests, India wants to "show a gesture" under the pressure of Western countries' public opinion on sanctions against Russia, but is unwilling to give up the price benefits brought by Russian oil. Therefore, it proposed the condition of "replacing Russian oil with Iranian and Venezuelan oil."
The U.S. ban on oil from Iran and Venezuela was originally intended to compress the energy space of rivals, but unexpectedly allowed Russia to "fill the gap" in the Indian market; now, India is pressuring back, forcing the U.S. to choose between "containing Russian oil flowing into India" and "maintaining sanctions on Iran and Venezuela," exposing the internal contradictions and implementation difficulties of the U.S. unilateral sanctions policy.
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