tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post113738740185239000..comments2024-03-01T13:51:47.721+05:30Comments on Reality, one bite at a time: India, Iran and the nuclear challengeSiddharth Varadarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721228307097170092noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-53773896369266730302009-07-25T18:20:59.062+05:302009-07-25T18:20:59.062+05:30I am grateful to you for this great content.aöf th...I am grateful to you for this great content.<a href="http://www.acik-ogretim.com" rel="nofollow">aöf</a> thanks <a href="http://www.radyo.biz" rel="nofollow">radyo dinle</a> cool <a href="http://www.hikaye.biz" rel="nofollow">hikaye</a> very nice <a href="http://www.sskbank.com" rel="nofollow">ssk</a>only<a href="http://www.cinselhaz.com" rel="nofollow">cinsellik</a> very nice <a href="http://www.ehliyet.us" rel="nofollow">ehliyet</a> turhoq home free <a href="http://www.kadin.info" rel="nofollow">kadın</a> last go <a href="http://www.korku.info" rel="nofollow">korku</a> jomax med olsaoy <a href="http://www.hepsihikaye.com" rel="nofollow">hikaye</a> lesto go <a href="http://www.bedavamp3indir.info" rel="nofollow">mp3 indir</a> free only <a href="http://www.filmizlermisin.com" rel="nofollow">film izle</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1138056032543296792006-01-24T04:10:00.000+05:302006-01-24T04:10:00.000+05:30Dear Sir,thanks for this outspoken observation: "W...Dear Sir,<BR/>thanks for this outspoken observation: "What they do not realise is that a country of India's strength has the political and diplomatic ability to get both. What they also do not realise is that the slightest indication of Indian willingness to allow the U.S. to dictate its strategic choices will only lead to Washington trying to extract even more."<BR/><BR/>I took the pleasure to link to your comment here: http://www.studien-von-zeitfragen.net/index.html<BR/><BR/>Please check under<BR/><BR/>IAEA, Iran and Atoms for Peace<BR/><BR/>Best regards<BR/>Peter G. SpenglerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1137734920269538772006-01-20T10:58:00.000+05:302006-01-20T10:58:00.000+05:30The opinions and insights contained by Siddharth a...The opinions and insights contained by Siddharth are very sound. But it is another matter that the Indian Establishment is hardly bothered about soundness. Otherwise, how else is one to account for the foreign policy driftage for the last twenty-plus years? <BR/>What strikes me as most important in this messy Indo-US-Iranian nuclear negotiations is that INDIA HAS LOST THE TRUST OF A NEAR FRIEND AND HAS NOT EARNED THE TRUST OF THE UNITED STATES. In future, the Indians will manage their concerns with the Iranians only in a ritualized manner. India cannot hope to secure confident forward movement on issues of pressing concern from a strategic perspective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1137730700430733552006-01-20T09:48:00.000+05:302006-01-20T09:48:00.000+05:30It is NOT about Iran's nuclear programme. It will ...It is NOT about Iran's nuclear programme. It will take them years to actually produce a nuclear weapon. Why the month of March 2006 for the intended attacks on Iran over this issue? It's because the Iranian Oil bourse will start trading for oil in EUROS instead of the DOLLAR. If that is allowed to happen,think of the consequences to the US overnight when the world starts dumping the DOLLAR for the EURO!So, this action is intended to destabilise Iran and to prevent her from this course of action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1137554409227933072006-01-18T08:50:00.000+05:302006-01-18T08:50:00.000+05:30If India wants to be a Asian power house and keeps...If India wants to be a Asian power house and keeps its respect as a leader of non aligned movement, it needs to act indepedent of US. If US and the European cronies push for Sanction on Iran who has been part of the NPT and signatory to IAEA and get away with it. A country like India will end up bowing to US pressure some where down the line. India needs to stay with its neighbors and support an independent policy. Staying with Iran will benefit us in the long term than bowing to US pressure. In 10 years Iran will develope a Bomb anyway no matter what. If we don't play our cards right now and don't support independent policy...Iran will bypass us in future and we will loose this enoromous source of energy which is right next to us. US is in weak position and this is the best time for India to assert its right and remain true to its roots. I am sure Gandi will roll over in his grave if we make one more ugly move like what happened last november when we sided with the Americans....Long live India and independent policy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1137512230127627022006-01-17T21:07:00.000+05:302006-01-17T21:07:00.000+05:30i agree that india must not simply bow to US press...i agree that india must not simply bow to US pressure, but siding with iran as a tribute to our erstwhile non-alighnment would be NOT keeping our ear to the ground.Vikram Johrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12016674284703056882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1137461262735920492006-01-17T06:57:00.000+05:302006-01-17T06:57:00.000+05:30India is an independent country. It should do what...India is an independent country. It should do whats in its best interest. That would be to side with the US.<BR/><BR/>To defend Iran and say it has the soviergn right to have a nuclear program, is about as good an arguement as to say that its nuclear program is intentioned to take care of energy requirements. <BR/><BR/>You seem to worry that we will become slaves of US foreign policy. If we side with Iran can't it be argued that we are slaves of Iran's energy reserves? India should do what is in its best interest, and for that to be going agianst the only superpower in the world is very unlikely.<BR/><BR/><BR/>China does not outright annex Taiwon, primarily because of the US. Does that by default make China a junior partner of the US?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Perhaps its time to put economic development over petty issues such as pride.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1137402927188904332006-01-16T14:45:00.000+05:302006-01-16T14:45:00.000+05:30The recent spat between Russia and Ukraine on Natu...The recent spat between Russia and Ukraine on Natural Gas supply is a good example to strengthen the proposition that on core issues such as energy security, India must not rely too much on import of fuel. Projects such as running gas pipe lines between Iran and India or between Myanmar and India are not in India's long-term interest. (The fact that these pipe lines would run via Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively only adds to their inadvisability.)<BR/><BR/>A concept somewhat similar to MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) that is in vogue with respect to armed conflicts and wars, would also be applicable, on the economic front, to certain vital, strategic imports such as fuel required to meet a country's realistic energy needs. India should make it a policy to import strategic material only when it is able export something that is equally strategic to the supplier country. For example, import fuel, but ensure that the Supplier country is heavily dependent on importing Electricity from us! <BR/><BR/>For India, it would be better to concentrate on developing the resources which are available within our country, and attempt to efficiently make do with what we have, until we find, through well directed and administered R&D, future energy related bonanzas. Recent articles on travails of Uranium prospecting in India by T.S. Subramanian et al in Frontline (Volume: 22, Issue: 27, 13/01/2006, URL:<A HREF="http://www.flonnet.com/fl2227/stories/20060113000806000.htm" REL="nofollow">http://www.flonnet.com/fl2227/stories/20060113000806000.htm</A>) point to the real reason why we have had to face failure so far, in our efforts to find energy security. It is not lack of technological ability that is delaying our progress, it is lack of political wisdom and will in an empoverished, and consequently corrupt, (I must say, nevertheless vibrant - the decibel levels and catching practice of odd things such as microphones etc, we see in Parliament at times is the proof) democracy.<BR/><BR/>Hence, neither Iran-India pipeline, nor import of Uranium (particularly at the expense of national Sovereignty, and progress in high-technology) is in India's interest.<BR/><BR/>Therefore, India must <B>stare-down</B> the US; no question of blinking!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com