Scraps Stuffs - Random musings from apun ka desh

Today is the day for the IAEA vote on Iran. The EU 3 (UK, France and Germany who are leading the charge against Iran) are going to table a resolution recommending that the IAEA refer Iran to the UN Security Council for violating NPT. Depending on the wording India will either support the resolution against Iran or abstain. In all probability we would have supported any resolution against Iran as India always stands for respecting any treaty a country signs. If Iran wanted to develop nuclear weapons it shouldn't have signed the NPT at all. But since it did, it needs to adhere to that treaty and hence trying to develop nuclear weapons in a clandestine manner is out. And there is no doubt that that's what Iran intends to do eventually. Claiming a need to develop enrichment technology is only a cover for nuclear weapons development. But the "ugly American" behaviour of the US ambassador to India (telling India to vote against Iran or else...) made the left parties and the BJP see red (well the BJP saw orange) with the left parties demanding the ambassador's recall. But since their Chinese masters now support reporting Iran to the UNSC, the left parties have now fallen in line and "want Iran to fulfill its obligations under the NPT". Well those who pay the piper call the tune :-)

India must vote against Iran because

1. We stand for abiding by any treaties that are signed and Iran signed the NPT and its violating the spirit of that treaty now.
2. India doesn't want any other nuclear power in its neighbourhood and most definitely not a theocratic state.
3. Iran is busy abusing India and threatening us on a regular basis both with respect to already signed gas deals and future oil deals. We have no justification to support anyone who doesn't support our goal of energy security.