A highly liked comment in the Indian forum. The reality is that India felt like it cannot compete with China in the long run anyway. It bet on US and as bitter as it was ignored its only way to Afghanistan and Central Asia.
“During the first term of Modi government Chabbar was made a priority. Nitin Gadkari was overseeing the project. In fact he was very much involved in it. India was investing money to build the port. Apart from top management and Engineers, everyone else employed were Iranians. However sometime in 2018 Chabbar hit a wall. Iranians were playing ball. The foreign minister of Iran I read somewhere proposed that if the port has to be completed then India should give money to Iran and they will complete it. This was nothing but an euphemism for corruption as Iranian economy was and is still in dumps. The money they asked was something in the range of $500 million most likely the payments had to be made in Euros because of sanctions. US actually gave a special exemption for Chabbar port for India. India didn't want to handover money to Iranians. So the development of port stalled.
I would say it's better for us to be independent of Iran. The fucking moronic Mullahs think every country by default should be against USA and Israel. These morons don't have a basic understanding of world order created after WW2 and why countries simply can't go against USA.”
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“During the first term of Modi government Chabbar was made a priority. Nitin Gadkari was overseeing the project. In fact he was very much involved in it. India was investing money to build the port. Apart from top management and Engineers, everyone else employed were Iranians. However sometime in 2018 Chabbar hit a wall. Iranians were playing ball. The foreign minister of Iran I read somewhere proposed that if the port has to be completed then India should give money to Iran and they will complete it. This was nothing but an euphemism for corruption as Iranian economy was and is still in dumps. The money they asked was something in the range of $500 million most likely the payments had to be made in Euros because of sanctions. US actually gave a special exemption for Chabbar port for India. India didn't want to handover money to Iranians. So the development of port stalled.
I would say it's better for us to be independent of Iran. The fucking moronic Mullahs think every country by default should be against USA and Israel. These morons don't have a basic understanding of world order created after WW2 and why countries simply can't go against USA.”
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