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talk to PDF member "Musulman" he's well versed on the deal....
if you review the price mechanism, india would ONLY be responsible for deliveries received. So I dont know how Iranians can be expected to be responsible for gas deliver once it has left Iranian side. And while Pakistan could, in theory, cut off supply to indian, they would lose out by violating the terms and possibly having supplies cut itself.
the reason the indians "opted out" are only because of american pressure and nothing else....it's common knowledge.
Actually if I remember right, this was a sore point in the discussion. Iranians wanted to be paid for all the gas that left their border where as Indians wanted to pay only for the gas that was received at the Indian Border. India wanted Iran to be responsible for any losses in transit so that if there are disruptions in Pakistan, the loss is borne by Iran and not India.
And this is pretty common actually.