The unpleasant personal and political relationship between the USA and Iran is very much evident to the whole world. So, to make Iran suffer the United Statesgovernmentis leaving no margin of error which could help Iran in any manner. Therefore, it would be very interesting to know how India paid due to the existing dispute between USA and Iran.

India has been trying for more than 10 years to declare the chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) a terrorist organization ‘Masood Azhar’ as International Terrorist. But every time Chine used to save him by using its veto power in the United Nations Security Council Meeting (UNSC). But in 2019, meeting India again voiced the same and this time the scenario was very much different from India’s perspective. It was so because of a few weeks before on February 14, 2019, India suffered a huge loss of lives of Army Personnel due to the terrorist attack conducted under Masood Azhar’s instructions and is famously known as "Pulwama Attack". That is why this time India was very firm over its decision and every participating country supported India over it except China in the meeting.

After all this, India didn’t lose its hope and the Foreign Ministry was trying all its effort and finally, the diplomacy of India won. But this is not the complete truth behind this win and many of you might not be aware of what price India pays to achieve this diplomatic win regardless of China being unsupportive all the time. We all knew about the win but we didn’t know about at what price we get this achievement.

India is a friend with the USA, UK, and France, but the USA and UK are used to be friends with benefits. Whereas, India is having quite good relations with Franceand currently having Rafale deal undergoing it. And with the UK the relations of India are very good and it is very evident to all. So, now the condition arises to pay the price to the USA and get a place in its good books. So, India paid the price to get into the good books of the USA and in return, help to declare Masood Azhar as the International Terrorist.  

The price India paid to the USA for this is to, give up its Oil Import from Iran. It would be a tough choice for India to give up about 13% of its oil imports. But eventually, India made the decision and sacrificed its trade with Iran in return to declare Masood Azhar a National Terrorist.

To pacify and manipulate the Indian officials, the US told them that the policy between both the countries has been designed to put ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran, and it is not at all targets against India. Because, the longing disputes between USA and Iran, is giving The USA a belief that the Iranian might use this money to support the terror group like Hamas and Hezbullah as well as continues its development of missiles.

However, as a helping hand, the Washington government is working with the Delhi government to maintain the oil requirement of India with Saudi Arabia. For this, UAE is prepared to export more oil to India. Ultimately, it was a win for the USA only just by lending a helping hand to India and make Iran suffer from more economic losses.