India pays oil bill, Iran ducks sanctions

India pays oil bill, Iran ducks sanctions
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Aug 19, 2011 - Amid a welter of international intrigue and big-stick diplomacy, Iran has been dodging international sanctions again. Energy-hungry India, which gets 18 percent of its oil from Iran, has resumed oil payments to Tehran through a state-owned Turkish bank after remittances were cut off in December due to sanctions imposed by the United Nations in June 2010 over Iran's nuclear program. ... more