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Left, SP use Iran to warn UPA: we are over 100 MPs, you better change Vienna vote
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‘‘We want to know from the government who it is with on the issue, the US or Iran. Foreign policy can’t be decided within the four walls of a room,’’ said Karat. All speakers at the rally were stridently anti-US and anti-Israel. SP general secretary Amar Singh said, ‘‘Together we represent 110 MPs and the Congress is changing policies with only 145 MPs.’’ Karat said that India’s growing oil needs could be addressed by Iran. ‘‘We had very good relations with Iran. But the Manmohan Singh government seems to have rejected that policy,’’ he said.

Indiens Unterstützung der Iran-kritischen IAEA-Resolution sorgt schon seit Wochen für erheblichen Wirbel. Die Regierung ist in der Frage des zukünftigen aussenpolitischen Kurses allgemein weiterhin zerstritten und findet in dieser Frage einen zentralen Aufhänger.

Hintergrund :
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Iran, India And The US

By Conn Hallinan

26 October, 2005
Counterpunch

This is a tale about a vote, a strike, and a sleight of hand.
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Why was India lining up with the United States and the EU against Iran, especially since it risked alienating essential domestic allies? Why would India jeopardize its relations with Iran while it is engaged in high-stakes negotiations with Teheran over a $22 billion natural gas deal, and a $5 billion oil pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan?

To sort this out one has to go back to early this year when CIA Director Porter Goss and U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified before Congress that China posed a strategic threat to U.S. interests. Both men lobbied for a "containment" policy aimed at surrounding and isolating China .

One key piece on this new Cold War chessboard is India...