H"Iran"ian

"Oh! its doomed. India should not have voted against Iran in IAEA. How can India go against a 'long standing friend'?", thus boils the blood of our beloved intellectual bretheren. "India has fallen prey to the dictation of the US", a secret revealed by them.

I have big doubts on both claims. First of all it is incorrect to say Iran is/was a 'long standing friend' of India. The stand of our 'beloved friend' on kashmir is simply anti-India and pro-pakistan. Is that how a friend behaves? If at all we had a friend in the Gulf area who steady-fast supported India's stand on Kashmir was Saddam Hussein and India not joining the US and UK on Iraq war had this being a partial reason (the other reason, in my humble opinion, is, simply Iraq war is not India's war why should India poke its nose in a wrong place at a wrong time for an unjustified reason?).


Iran is a signatory of NPT (Nuclear non proliferation treaty which bans any nuclear weaponisation programme) whereas India was and is not. When India did Pokhran II, Iran was vociferous against India's nuclear weaponisation programme and "strongly urged" India to sign NPT. Whereas when Pakistan followed suit it was US, UK which condemened that too in equal terms (atleast to the world) whereas Iran was not as vocifereous as it was a few days back, against India.

Such is the longstanding friendship gesture of our beloved friend (since caveman days).

"Oh! what will happen to Natural Gas if Iran had not gracefully & magnanimously said that 'even after India's vote against us(Iran) the Natural Gas project is still alive; friends are not judged based on single act'. Such is Iran's friendship and what India did is backstabbing", babbles our bretherens.

oh, yeah. India has no other source to get Natural Gas apart from Iran, isn't it? But that is not correct. A few South East Asian countries, Bangladesh (techincally speaking; coz now its more hostile to India than Pakistan so it is better not to go to bangladesh) are ready to supply same amount of Natural Gas to India. So India a potential buyer has more than one supplier. Now coming to Iran, the supplier's case. None in Europe/Americas is willing to buy Iranian natural gas when they can get from nearer sources like Arabia. So naturally it is Russia, China and India who have potential to buy and who are in need are Iran's customer. But Russia and China who have more stake in Iran's clandestine nuclear weaponisation programme dont want to buy 'Iran gas' for various other reasons. So, for Iran only India is the option. Wheras for India, Iran is not the only supplier. So I leave it to you to judge who is in need of who.

So the "Indi-Irani bhai bhai" stuff is just a heap of crappy story spun very well by our intellectuals.

Then do I want India to fight Iran if US, UK and probably this time france wage a war against Iran?

My opinion is, why should, again it is not our war. Our voting against Iran's nuclear weaponisation programme does not necessarily mean that we have to wage a war against Iran. Our psyche does not work in that way.

Infact, after the Iraq debacle US is keen to get UN to send troupes to Iran, should there be a war. And hold your breath, China and Russia despite their proximity to Iran have a greater chance to give atleast 'moral support' for this war than the "confused/ambivalent/bootlicker" India.

I recommend you all to read the Batting for Iran article in Indiareacts.com for further information.

Thanks to my friend Seeni, some of my points above are based on the information he provided.