Indian Foreign Minister says they raised concerns to US Secretary of State Rubio about the 'Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act'

The transmission channel runs through crude supply and the sanctioning of buyers, not through any direct restriction on India itself, so the operative question is whether the legislation threatens the discount-linked Russian flows that have become a large share of Indian refinery intake, and whether the waiver mechanism survives. Comments of this kind at foreign minister level are a negotiating marker rather than a policy shift; they typically precede bilateral engagement, not compliance or confrontation. What distinguishes this episode is that raising concerns before passage, rather than after, suggests an attempt to shape the drafting, which is the stage at which exemption language has historically been inserted. Worth watching is whether the administration responds publicly, whether the bill's waiver provisions are amended, and how other large buyers of sanctioned crude position alongside India.