{"id":52185,"date":"2024-05-14T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T05:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52185"},"modified":"2024-05-14T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T05:38:56","slug":"india-iran-sign-10-year-agreement-to-develop-port-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52185","title":{"rendered":"India, Iran sign 10-year agreement to develop port project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India and Iran on Monday signed a 10-year contract to develop and equip the strategic Chabahar port in Iran as India seeks to grow trade in west and central Asia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The agreement will give India 10-year access to use the port, located close to Iran&#8217;s southeastern border with Pakistan, according to Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.<\/p>\n<p>The contract will in turn see India Ports Global Limited (IPGL) invest $370 million into &#8220;providing strategic equipment&#8221; and &#8220;developing the transport infrastructure of the port&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, which has warm ties with India but a long adversarial relationship with Iran, had begrudgingly accepted the port project while the US military was in Afghanistan, as it saw New Delhi as a valuable partner to back the Kabul government that fell in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>But Washington warned Monday that Indian companies could face sanctions, as US relations sour with Iran over Tehran&#8217;s support for Hamas in its war with Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Iran on Monday signed a 10-year contract to develop and equip the strategic Chabahar port in Iran as India seeks to grow trade in west and central Asia. The agreement will give India 10-year access to use the port, located close to Iran&#8217;s southeastern border with Pakistan, according to Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Roads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1473],"class_list":["post-52185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-india-iran-sign-10-year-agreement-to-develop-port-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}