Indian efforts and Iranian assistance

As mentioned here before, India is to increase Qatar’s entitlement of airline seats under their bilateral traffic rights agreement, which has been reached and final numbers are being negotiated at this time. Qatar is looking for 72,600 seats from the current 24,800. This deal would put Oneworld and Qatar ahead of Etihad/Jet and Emirates for ME transit seats offered. It is likely that Qatar Airways will get what it wants as the Indian government is also negotiating a complex LNG supply deal with Qatar right now. It is also understood that Qatar is trying to team-up with Air India by