NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 15 New Delhi plans to ask Tehran to keep nuclear politics out of the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project and consider the latter as a purely commercial deal.

Though the final word has to come from the Ministry of External Affairs, the Petroleum Ministry plans to convey to Iran that commercial discussions should not get derailed by political developments.

While talking of the age-old relationship between the two countries, it has suggested that political events cannot and should not be taken up in the Special JWG which was set up purely for building the gas pipeline.

India’s point of view would be included in the JWG proceedings that is yet to be signed and agreed upon because of Tehran’s demand that New Delhi make amends at the next IAEA meet on November 24 and take ‘‘all measures’’ to hold the tripartite meeting by December end.

Iran’s Deputy Petroleum Minister for International Affairs M H Nejad Hosseinian had told the Indian delegation that Tehran expected India to ‘‘compensate the past default by supporting Iran in the next meeting of the IAEA board of governors in November’’.