U.S. sanctions waiver on Chabahar port ends on April 26, could signal end of 23-year-old connectivity project

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Although the archetypal Chabahar larboard statement betwixt India and Iran was signed successful 2003, U.S. sanctions person consistently slowed down advancement connected the large connectivity task from India done Iran to Afghanistan and Central Asia. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos

As the U.S. sanctions waiver for Iran’s Chabahar larboard ends connected Sunday (April 26, 2026), the authorities faces a large trial successful strategical autonomy, arsenic it whitethorn person to take betwixt exiting the 23-year-old larboard task oregon facing American sanctions.

Officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) person been holding talks with U.S. counterparts connected the contented since October 2025, erstwhile Washington extended the waiver for six months until April 26, 2026, to springiness India clip to “wind down” the project. Given the U.S.-Iran warfare and a bid of U.S. measures targeting Iran nether the U.S. Treasury’s “Operation Economic Fury”, officials said they were not hopeful of different extension.

Published - April 25, 2026 09:48 p.m. IST

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