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US mounts pressure on India, China to stop Iran oil
Wednesday February 29, 2012 10:22:27 AM,
IANS
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Washington: Asserting
that it was going to "to keep an absolute foot on the pedal" the
United States says it's having "very intense and very blunt
conversations" with India, China and Turkey to make them stop
buying oil from Iran.
"Well, I think, with respect to China and Turkey and India, we've
had very intense and very blunt conversations with each of those
countries," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a Senate panel
Tuesday
"I think that there are a number of steps that we are pointing out
to them that we believe they can and should make," she said when
asked about progress made with China, India and Turkey in this
respect.
Clinton also suggested that these countries were taking some
unspecified actions without publicly talking about.
"I also can tell you that in a number of cases, both on their
government side and on their business side, they are taking
actions that go further and deeper than perhaps their public
statements might lead you to believe," she said.
"And we're going to continue to keep an absolute foot on the pedal
in terms of our accelerated, aggressive outreach to them," Clinton
said noting "they are looking for ways to make up the lost
revenues, the lost crude oil."
That's a difficulty for a lot of countries besides India, China
and Turkey, she said. "So we've had to put together an entire team
to try to assist them in thinking through ways of doing that."
Later, Clinton told another senate panel that the US was
"implementing the new Iran sanctions aggressively."
"We have been travelling the world, high-level teams from
Treasury, Energy and State, to explain what the sanctions are to
counterparts around the world."
"We're very frank in these discussions about the requirements of
US law," Clinton said. "And we have seen a lot of action. A broad
range of countries are making decisions to reduce their dependence
on Iranian crude, unwind their dealings with the central bank of
Iran."
US, she said, was "also pushing very hard to make it clear that
we'll help countries that have a significant dependence on Iranian
crude to try to find alternatives.
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