bushwhacked? – india iran relations
The threat to American Dollar Hegemony from Iraq has been averted
Iraq successfully destroyed, Mr Saddam Hussain hanged.
The next threat is Iran,
with promise of a new Oil Bourse and trading oil for Euros.
Iran too has to be destroyed, but needs to be first ISOLATED.
For Iran has strong supports.
Iran wishes to cooperate on security and trade with
China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
and along with Mongolia and Pakistan, has applied for a full membership of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
India too is a potential future member and holds an observer status since 2005.
In February 2007, Iran finalised a deal to supply natural gas to India and Pakistan.
America is desperate for an ally against this emerging group of tomorrow’s superpowers.
America need a “partner” in crime, against humanity and sovereign states.
America needs a donkey in south asia to do their unpleasant work.
The Hyde Act is about “strategic partnership”.
On September 03, 2005,
India had committed support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear programme.
But twice since then India voted against Iran to support an International Atomic Energy Agency resolution on Iran’s domestic nuclear programme.
The reason being the carrot dangling and arm twisting over the “123 agreement”.
India’s anti-Iran votes were coerced, says former US official
Stephen G. Rademaker, who quit his job as assistant secretary for non-proliferation and International Security at the US State Department last December, in a talk here on ‘Iran, North Korea and the future of the NPT’ at India’s Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA)’ said the July 2005 nuclear agreement had helped bring about a big change in India’s attitude towards ‘non-proliferation’.
“The best illustration of this is the two votes India cast against Iran at the IAEA,” he said, adding: “I am the first person to admit that the votes were coerced.”
It is the same carrot and arm-twisting politics continuing with the “Henry Hyde’s Act”.
These are the four paragraphs that refers to Iran in this document.
‘‘Henry J. Hyde’s:
United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006’’.
“An Act to exempt from certain requirements of the (US) Atomic Energy Act of 1954
a proposed nuclear agreement for cooperation with India.”
SEC. 102. SENSE OF CONGRESS
It is the sense of Congress that:
(6) it is in the interest of the United States to enter into an agreement for nuclear cooperation arranged pursuant to section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153) with a country that has never been a State Party to the NPT if —
(D) such cooperation will induce the country to give greater political and material support to the achievement of United States global and regional non-proliferation objectives, especially with respect to dissuading, isolating, and, if necessary, sanctioning and containing states that sponsor terrorism and terrorist groups that are seeking to acquire a nuclear weapons capability or other weapons of mass destruction capability and the means to deliver such weapons;
SEC. 103. STATEMENTS OF POLICY.
(b) WITH RESPECT TO SOUTH ASIA.—
(4) Secure India’s full and active participation in United States efforts to dissuade, isolate, and, if necessary, sanction and contain Iran for its efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear weapons capability and the capability to enrich uranium or reprocess nuclear fuel, and the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction.
SEC. 104. WAIVER AUTHORITY AND CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.
(c) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—
(2) INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED.—
A description and assessment of the specific measures that India has taken to fully and actively participate in United States and international efforts to dissuade, isolate, and, if necessary, sanction and contain Iran for its efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear weapons capability and the capability to enrich uranium or reprocess nuclear fuel and the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction.
SEC. 104. WAIVER AUTHORITY AND CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.
(g) REPORTING TO CONGRESS.—
(2) IMPLEMENTATION AND COMPLIANCE REPORT
(E)
(i) an assessment of whether India is fully and actively participating in United States and international efforts to dissuade, isolate, and, if necessary, sanction and contain Iran for its efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear weapons capability (including the capability to enrich uranium or reprocess nuclear fuel), and the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction, including a description of the specific measures that India has taken in this regard; and(ii) if India is not assessed to be fully and actively participating in such efforts, a description of—
(I) the measures the United States Government has taken to secure India’s full and active participation in such efforts;
(II) the responses of the Government of India to such measures; and
(III) the measures the United States Government plans to take in the coming year to secure India’s full and active participation;
This is the primary reason for this deal, groundwork towards invading Iran.
This is America’s politics of blatant double standards.
USA is already, dictating to India to diminish ties with Tehran,
calling Iran an NPT signatory, a “nuclear outlaw” and a “recalcitrant and difficult” country.
In their bid to prise India away from a probable alliance with Iran, China and Russia and to force India to join in ‘isolating’ Iran or join hands in another illegal war,
they are tempting us with a pseudo status as a nuclear weapon state.
And nothing else.
I do not understand why there is a denial of this link between the Hyde’s Act and Iran. I wish our expert observers were brave (and honest) enough to acknowledge it.
There are some who wants Indians to blindly sign up to the deal, and are conveniently using the “left”s’ ideologies to scare us with the threat of China.
To divert attention from the unpleasant issues by blaming it all on the “commies”.
This government did not refuse to form a coalition with the “Lefts” to get into power, for the “left-haters” it is the time of reckoning, the time to pay the price –
for politics of convenience.
Tough.
America
India
Iran
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Hyde’s Act
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