Is India’s Chabahar dream in Iran dead?
Key takeaways
- The port has been a centrepiece of India’s regional strategic ambitions.
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- The port has been the centrepiece of India’s hopes of building a trade and transit corridor with landlocked Afghanistan and Central Asia.
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The port has been a centrepiece of India’s regional strategic ambitions. Now, those hopes are sinking after a US sanctions waiver expired.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A cargo ship sails through the Shahid Beheshti terminal in the southeastern Iranian coastal city of Chabahar, on the Gulf of Oman, during an inauguration ceremony of new equipment and infrastructure on February 25, 2019 Atta Kenare/AFP]By Yashraj Sharma Published On 29 Apr 202629 Apr 2026New Delhi, India — Relations between the United States and India are at a crossroads yet again: this time, over New Delhi’s decade-long investment in Iran’s Chabahar Port.
India’s most ambitious connectivity project in its extended neighbourhood now potentially faces a dead end after a US waiver on sanctions imposed on the project expired on Sunday, with no signs of its revival from Washington. The port has been the centrepiece of India’s hopes of building a trade and transit corridor with landlocked Afghanistan and Central Asia.