As India and
Iran engage in a blame game, the fate of the multi-billion dollar Farzad-B gas field contract that New Delhi has been pursuing with Tehran since 2009, seems doomed. Iran accuses India of inflexibility, while India charges Iran with “changing goal posts” and adopting “delay tactics” in an attempt at negotiating a more favourable deal.
But both sides agree that the future of the contract is uncertain. “If they are saying that we are being inflexible, then we have to wholeheartedly refute this,” a senior official in the Petroleum Ministry told
The Hindu. “Due to changing goal posts and delay tactics employed by Iran, we are in a situation where the deal is uncertain.”