A little payback?

If you recall, India voted with the IAEA to refer Iran to the UN Security Council.

Perhaps this bit of news is a little payback?

India has said Iranian gas prices are so high the proposed pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan is unworkable.

The Financial Express newspaper said Tuesday the price demanded by Iran for gas from the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline -- $6 per million British thermal units -- was so high as to make the $7 billion project unviable.

"It's too early to say anything, but India will never agree to buy gas at this price," the Indian oil ministry said.

The price of gas from the pipeline, and the overall project structure, were discussed for the first time in 18 months, India's oil ministry said, at the first trilateral secretary-level meeting held in Tehran last week. Energy Secretary M.S. Srinivasan led the Indian delegation.

A top oil ministry official said the issues would now be discussed further on April 30 in Islamabad, Pakistan, when the three sides meet again. Ministerial-level meetings may also take place, but have not been confirmed.

India wanted this pipeline to help meet its growing energy needs. But as I said in this post, in voting against Iran, India may have cast its lot, and made the chances of this pipeline ever becoming reality remote.