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April 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda India is bound by UN sanctions, but “unilateral sanctions imposed by countries or [a] group of countries shouldn’t impact legitimate trade relations with Iran,” Krishna told lawmakers in a written reply in the upper house of parliament, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
He said New Delhi’s crude oil imports from Tehran are guided by India’s energy needs.
The foreign minister pointed out; however, that India and the United States “remain committed to strengthening their strategic partnership.”
The US and EU imposed tough financial and oil sanctions against Iran in the beginning of 2012 in a bid to pile up pressure on Tehran over its nuclear energy program.
On March 10, the US announced that 11 countries, including 10 European states and Japan, would be exempted from the financial sanctions due to their crude imports cut from Iran.
The US unilateral sanctions, slated to take full effect June 28, seek to penalize other countries for importing Iranian crude.
Washington has urged 12 other countries, including India, China and South Korea, to follow the example of those exempted from the sanctions by significantly reducing oil imports from Iran.
The US, Israel and some of their allies have accused Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.
Iran has repeatedly dismissed such allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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