{"id":61635,"date":"2018-11-28T09:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=61635"},"modified":"2018-11-28T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:16:38","slug":"iranian-oil-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/iranian-oil-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian oil crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question: Consider the following statements regarding recent Iranian oil crisis:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Iran is the third largest supplier of crude oil to India<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. India and China are amongst 8 nations which got exemption from ban<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Iran is the second largest producer of petroleum oil in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Choose the correct options of the following:<\/strong>
    \n(a)1 and 2 only<\/strong>
    \n(b)2 and 3 only<\/strong>
    \n(c)1 and 3 only<\/strong>
    \n(d)All of the above<\/strong>
    \nAnswer: (a)<\/strong>
    \nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • India is one of the countries to receive temporary exemptions from U.S. sanctions on Iran that came into effect on 3rd<\/sup> Ban was imposed on Iran by America a few months back over the issue of Iranian Nuclear Deal <\/strong>which included permanent end of Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons programme, stop enrichment and closing down its heavy water reactor. Iran has to also stop proliferating ballistic missiles, and end support to \u2018terrorist\u2019 groups.<\/li>\n
    • Other countries which have got exemptions are China, India, Italy, Greece, Japan, Greece, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n