India, Mullahs' Last Best Friend?

“No one's accusing India of ideological kinship with the mullahs. Mr. Singh's government has said that it doesn't want a nuclear Iran and has voted against Tehran in the International Atomic Energy Agency. Yet now he's effectively enabling those nuclear ambitions by failing to stand with the coalition of nations trying to force Tehran to change course” the WSJ editorial says.

India shared a healthy relationship with Iran from time much before this complicated international scenario and has been in good touch with the Islamic Republic socially and economically. The relationship was quite evident from the fact that Iran, on multiple occasions, objected Pakistan's attempts to draft anti-India resolutions at international organizations like such as Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Human Rights Commission. India, apart from its crucial stand at present, had welcomed Iran's inclusion as an observer state in the SAARC regional organization. The relationship between the two came to the global spotlight once again when an Israeli diplomat’s vehicle was bombed in New Delhi behind which an Iranian hand was suspected.

 “The real question for India is whether it is prepared to take its place as a responsible keeper of the world order. Or does it prefer to cast its lot, for the sake of a handful of rupees, with the spoilers of Moscow and Beijing?,” the editorial ends.