Iran, Geopolitics and the Bomb

Iran is a friend of India?

We must prefer Bush, Warts and all

For those painting Iran as a valuable Indian ally and heroic underdog whom India must support against US imperialism, we have news.

Iran has just declared bluntly that if the price of oil exceeds $80/barrel —something that looks certain in the foreseeable future — then Iran will renege on its agreement to supply India 5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year.

This is not the act of a friend or ally, or even of a disinterested commercial supplier. It is the bullying tactic of an arrogant oil power using energy as a commercial and diplomatic weapon.

India seeks long-term LNG contracts to ensure energy security for gas-based power plants and chemical plants costing thousands of crores. Teheran has put India on notice that those thousands of crores of investment will be at the mercy of Iranian whim on LNG supplies.

The Ahmedinejad regime that came to power after the LNG agreement was signed has constantly made excuses to avoid inking a formal contract. We now know why. The Ahmedinejad regime has proved irresponsible on more than one front, and cannot be regarded as a reliable supplier of energy.

India needs to shift to Saudi Arabia (which has been far friendlier) and Qatar. The proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline should be put on the back-burner till the Ahmedinejad regime gives way to a more reliable one. This also puts in perspective India’s diplomatic choices on Iran’s uranium enrichment plans.

US Ambassador David Mulford said in a press interview that an Indian vote favouring Iran in the International Atomic Energy Agency would be found “devastating” by US Congress, which would kill Bush’s initiative to change US non-proliferation laws to allow nuclear supplies to India.

This is undoubtedly true but predictably led to protests in political circles. The Ambassador was pulled up by India’s foreign secretary, and the Bush administration dissociated itself from Mulford. This is diplomatic theatre.

India is indeed free to choose, but let nobody pretend that choices do not have consequences. Should India align itself with the mullahs or the US, warts and all? Only hare-brained ideologues would opt for the mullahs.

``Iran is a friend of India, period. India will always stand by Iran and defend its rights`` (ranjit)

exactly -- and if I may add -- despite that stupid ignorant foot-in-mouth extremist `president` Ahmeqnijad....

hello inbred retard...The US ambassador`s implied thread has now backfired..And it turns out that after paki territory was bombed by US forces and Paki citizens killed on paki soil, the linguini-spined Paki government didn`t even summon the US ambassador..

Now you see why America sees Pakiland as a dog and pakis are deported in large numbers?

Iran vows missile retaliation to any attack
Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:46 PM IST16

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran would launch medium-range missiles if attacked, a military leader said on Saturday, accusing Britain and the United States of arming rebels as international pressure mounts on Tehran over its nuclear plans.

``If we come under a military attack, we will respond with our very effective missile defence,`` Yahya Rahim Safavi, commander in chief of the Revolutionary Guard, told state television.

Western states suspect Iran of secretly aiming to build a nuclear bomb. Tehran insists its nuclear facilities are intended to produce only electricity.

The United States and Israel have said they would prefer to solve the stand-off through diplomacy but have not ruled out a military strike.

#165 by behram1 on January 28, 2006 7:25am PT




When Man Mohan was trying to get a deal from the US, why did India then vote against Iran, in some UN vote?


The deal was signed in July..

The vote against Iran was cast in September...

A little factoid for the reality challenged inbred retard..

Ref: #164 by ranjit on January 28, 2006 5:18am PT

{India has shown a lot of backbone by telling the US ambassador to take a flying f*ck when that guy tried to bully India about Iran based on the nuclear deal.}

When Man Mohan was trying to get a deal from the US, why did India then vote against Iran, in some UN vote? Do you forget that?

{We do not take BS from anyone, whether it is US or any other country.} You seriously don`t believe that, do you?

{You should tell your Paindoo overlords in Islamabad to learn from India and develop a backbone.} Actually, when it comes to Iran, the Paindoos in Islamabad, know very well where to stand.

Re:behram1#163

[...up, that is India alright!

http://dawn.com/2006/01/28/top2.htm

India changes tune, defends Iran
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Behram mian, what are you complaining about? India has shown a lot of backbone by telling the US ambassador to take a flying f*ck when that guy tried to bully India about Iran based on the nuclear deal. We do not take BS from anyone, whether it is US or any other country. Iran is a friend of India, period. India will always stand by Iran and defend its rights, as long as Iran doesnt do something stupid like launch missiles against Israel.

You should tell your Paindoo overlords in Islamabad to learn from India and develop a backbone. You have US spy planes firing missiles and killing your civilians within your borders but your Paindoo overlords are visting US and indulging in their usual boot licking of the goras. What a shame!!!

Yup, that is India alright!

http://dawn.com/2006/01/28/top2.htm

India changes tune, defends Iran

By Jawed Naqvi

NEW DELHI, Jan 27: India on Friday distanced itself from US-led calls to isolate Iran at next week’s meeting of the IAEA after controversial remarks on the issue by Washington’s envoy to Delhi enraged the nation as seldom seen before.

The Indian foreign ministry, facing a barrage of criticism for apparent obsequiousness towards Washington that ranged from allies in the Left Front to former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, appeared to have rowed back from its recent bonhomie with the United States.

“During the past two weeks, India has been undertaking active consultations with all key members of the IAEA Board of Governors and with Iran, in order to avoid confrontation and to promote the widest possible consensus on handling the Iran nuclear issue,” a spokesman for the Indian foreign ministry said.

He explained that in all the consultations, India has urged “that Iran’s right to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy for its development consistent with its international obligations and commitments should be respected”.

The spokesman said: “Iran’s willingness to work together with the IAEA to remove any outstanding issues, about its nuclear programme should be welcomed.” In this regard, the agency should be allowed to proceed according to its work programme and submit a detailed report, he said.

India, he said, also welcomes all initiatives, “including from Russia, which could enable a consensus to be reached on this issue and urges further intensive efforts in that direction”.

In the bargain India appealed to “all concerned countries (to) avoid confrontation and work in the spirit of seeking a mutually acceptable solution”.

The Indian clarification, which came in response to a question, coincided with comments by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that India should be ready to make hard choices ahead.

Earlier this week, US Ambassador David Mulford, in apparent eagerness to clinch a civil nuclear energy deal with India before President George W. Bush arrives here on March 1, said the move could die in the US Congress if India did not vote against Iran at the February 2 IAEA meeting.

The Indian Express, which supports the deal, cautioned: “India and the US are raucous democracies. Public statements from either side quickly feed into the domestic politics of the other and complicate the negotiations between the two governments. India and the US have made much progress in the last few years because they have learnt one hard lesson from the wasted decades of the past: avoid hectoring each other in public. Mulford’s remarks are an awful deviation from that sensible rule.”

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government is already under considerable pressure from the Left as well as sections of the Congress to reverse its IAEA vote, the Express wrote. “By linking the implementation of the nuclear pact and the Iran vote, Mulford has undercut the prospects of India moving forward on both.”

The Hindu said: “In publicly warning India, on Republic Day eve, to vote against Iran or else, (Mulford) has outrageously crossed the line of diplomatic propriety, inviting condemnation from political players ranging from the Left to Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

“But he has also done India a service by letting the cat out of the bag, if it was ever fully in. In his interview to the Press Trust of India, he has spotlighted the pitiful terms of the bargain struck by the Manmohan Singh government with Washington under the signboard of civilian nuclear cooperation,” The Hindu said.

“Who can, after Mr Mulford’s egregious forthcomingness, doubt that the bargain requires India to behave like a marionette — forced at every turn of major international events to go against its own national instincts and interests for fear of offending Washington? Today it is a fatwa on Iran, tomorrow it will be a diktat on India’s plan to separate its civil and military nuclear facilities, which Mr. Mulford has found to fall short of ‘minimum standards’.”

The Asian Age, commenting on Mr Mulford’s faux pas, observed: “Sometimes when you say something often enough, you start saying it in your sleep. This is what appears to have happened to US Ambassador to India David C. Mulford who stunned his own, and definitely Manmohan Singh’s, governments with his recent interview to a news agency.”

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And India continues to suck hard. This time American sugar cane!

For any and all Hindoos, if this fits wear it:

So you are once again getting your brain out from between your legs. You are a creature whose skull is empty and has rocks bouncing around. Your spiritual leader Ghandhi has a whore house road in New Delhi named as Ghandhi Baba Road.

You were born to a tuwaif in a room where your mom was laid by a muslim. No wonder you hate muslims so much. Your spiritual leader asks you to early morning bowel on railroad tracks. And you have no shame. You conduct your Indian Yoga by shoving your head up in your smelley @ss.

Indians are strange creatures, hard for humans to understand.

{..other thing the pakis do.. } wait for hindoo chicks. Again, any problem?

#159 by behram1 on January 27, 2006 4:57pm PT


Any problem?


Problem called reality...reality is that you wait for fares..slow day for the cab driver profession? why don`t you plan a terrorist bombing or something..other thing the pakis do..

{whatever paki thing you normally do.. } I wait for hindoo chicks who are looking for sugar daddies. Any problem?

Bipolar factoid junkie:

Did you have your morning bowel movement? Or is it oozing out of your mouth? Go get on to the railroad tracks as your spiritual leader Gandhi suggested.

Most people in the world pray early in the morning, but you people worry about your early morning bowel movement. Go get it done.

Hello inbred retard..meet reality..

US cautions citizens to defer non-essential travel to Pakistan
(Updated at 0535 PST)
WASHINGTON: The United States has cautioned citizens to defer non-essential travel to Pakistan amid concerns over ``terrorist`` activity.

Updating a March 2005 travel advisory, the State Department said Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, particularly along the porous Afghan border region, and other indigenous sectarian and militant groups in Pakistan posed ``potential danger`` to US citizens.

It cited the bombing of McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Karachi in September last year, resulting in multiple injuries.

This month, a US missile attack targeted at terrorists on a village near the Afghan border killed 18 civilians, triggering protests across Pakistan.

Bipolar factoid junkie still is unable to understand that most Pakistanis are not interested to follow the Banged Galored IT code coolies. Get your brains out from between your legs, and quit doing Indian Yoga by sticking it up your smelley @ss.

{If IT is so bad, why is Pakistan begging microsoft to come and invest in Pakiland..Why hold exhibitions with the stated purpose of inviting foreign investment in IT?}

IT is not the way forward for Pakistan. Get it. Less than 5% of the US economy is in IT, and there is more to the world than live a frazzled life. Pakistan will be turning towards more traditional economy and a part (only a very small part) of that could be in modern technology.

{sour grapes?} Hardly. Pakistan is an enterprising nation and is humming along just fine.

{If Indians are code coolies, pakis are failures at being code coolies...how pathetic is that.}

Actually, most Americans always asks how pathetic are the Indians?
Now, factoid junkies are unable to comprehend that. And that is the truth.

#153 by behram1 on January 27, 2006 4:33pm PT


By kicking Indian jack @sses.


Inbred retard..confusing wet dreams with reality again? your willingness to kick ass says nothing about your actualy ability to do so..

now get back to your cab driving or whatever paki thing you normally do..