John Bolton says state department defended India on Iranian oil import but Trump was not 'sympathetic'

WASHINGTON: Former US national security advisor has slammed the State Department for defending India's position on import of oil from Iran, while claiming at the same time that President had "not been sympathetic" to New Delhi's case. In his tell-all book "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir" that hit the stands on Tuesday, there is a sporadic mention of India in the context of President Trump asking countries to bring down the import of Iranian oil to zero and the crisis with Pakistan following the Pulwama terror attack. The US last year had asked India and other countries to completely end their imports of Iranian oil by November 4 or be subject...