0705 GMT: On a morning dominated by assurances over the economy in Iranian State media, Press TV takes the award for Rosiest-Coloured Glasses:
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has defended Beijing’s decision to keep importing Iranian crude despite the US sanctions on Tehran, insisting that the move is not in breach of the UN Security Council’s resolutions.
China's oil imports from Iran were based on the country’s economic development needs and do not violate any UN resolutions or damage the interests of third parties, Hong Lei told reporters on Thursday. “China opposes any country imposing its domestic law on another country. We oppose the practice of saddling unilateral sanctions on a third country,” he added.
So what's missing? Perhaps the revelation on Thursday that China's imports of Iranian oil had fallen 45% in February.
Press TV also frames a letter from the Indian Foreign Minister to Parliament as "India to Continue Purchasing Iranian Crude Oil". State news agency IRNA's lead story is on the same topic.
So what's missing? This sentence from the Foreign Minister's statement, which points to the US-led strategy to wean countries off reliance on Tehran's crude: "India is also trying to diversify its sources of crude oil imports."
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