{"id":76624,"date":"2026-03-06T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/05\/us-waiver-india-russian-oil"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:28:32","slug":"us-grants-waiver-to-allow-india-to-buy-russian-oil-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76624","title":{"rendered":"US grants waiver to allow India to buy Russian oil amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Stopgap measure\u2019 designed to keep oil flowing into global market as Middle East crisis disrupts crude shipments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/mar\/06\/oil-biggest-weekly-gain-four-years-strait-of-hormuz-traffic-halt-stock-markets-dollar-imf-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US has temporarily allowed India to buy Russian oil currently stuck at sea in an effort to keep global supplies flowing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/05\/oil-price-continues-to-rise-amid-middle-east-crisis-but-stock-markets-rebound-across-asia\">temper further price increases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the US treasury issued a 30-day waiver allowing India to buy Russian oil, having previously imposed heavy sanctions related to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/05\/us-waiver-india-russian-oil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Stopgap measure\u2019 designed to keep oil flowing into global market as Middle East crisis disrupts crude shipmentsBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesThe US has temporarily allowed India to buy Russian oil currently stuck at sea in an effort to keep global sup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,666,62,448,212,449,419,61,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-commodities","category-india","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-oil","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76634,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76624\/revisions\/76634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}