3:56 pm IST
Aug 28, 2012


Singh’s Balancing Act in Tehran

    • keep on bartering with Iran -that's the real 'weapon of mass destruction', that will finally flush the obscene yankee dollar monopoly down the drain at last, as the plutocrats well know !

    • India want to show that how good they want to walk on the tightrope and how good they can act as two headed snake

    • Singh is king

    • Totally agreed… Very nice............nice step to flush the obscene yankee dollar monopoly down the drain at last


    • NATO IS a Cold War Grouping - the only real relevant organisation is NAM, for the following reasons:

      1) NAM = 2/3 (66%) of the UN General Assembly - countries that just want to be left alone so they can focus on there own people and not be exploited by the the 5 Countries sitting on the Security Council (the main culprit being the US) but dont have a voice because of the dictator style sturucture of the UN(where the Big 5 have Vetos).

      2) they currently Represent about 55% of the popuation (if you add brazil and china who are currently observers then about 80% of the population of the world)

      and rapidly diminishing friend list?? - thats why 120 countries have turned up for the summit in Iran??
      another author thats either ommiting the facts or living in cucoo land.

    • There are some other interesting realities; the NAM has often claimed to speak for the world's weak and marginalized and has had an anti-global-establishment posture. But with India having become a member of the Club of Oppressor Nations with a very poor human rights record and a notable member of the global establishment, the Five Pillars have lost their meanings. The movement was a dead horse based on diplomatic hypocrisy and it will remain a dead horse. However, it will accrue great dividends for Iran who has achieved this great diplomatic feat by managing to defy Western pressure on the attending states. Read more at: http://passivevoices.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/nam-summit-a-dead-horse-comes-to-life-once-again/

    • India want Iran & Israel-US. We would not like to interfere US-Israel-Iran Issues. Why you people want us with you or against you. India want Iran for greater roles in Afganistan & Central Asia. The same situation when NAM formed time for India.
      Indo-Iran friendly relations not started yesterday or day before yesterday. These great civilizations have thousands of years relations. We cant stop the relations with them because of Clergy ruled Arabs want.

      I don't think US-Israel will punish India for this. If so that's a big strategic mistake in Asia.

    • Hi Keep up with the outstanding posts. Thanks you very much

    • Hello. The content is quite nice

    • Even if the NAM represents a large proportion of the world's population, that doesn't mean it has any real clout. For example, several of the countries at the meeting are in varying states of conflict and many more have been at open war with eachother within the last 20 years. Furthermore, quite a few of the countries present are actually politically closer to the US/EU/NATO than to any other countries at the meeting -- they're only attending the meeting because skipping it would be completely idiotic.

      And of course, none of the countries in the NAM have any real aggressive military power and it's very likely that the US military is more powerful than every nation in the NAM combined, assuming no occupation.

      As an Indian, I should point out that our only real allegiance to the NAM is that they provide us oil and are geographically close to us, so it's in our best interest to stay out of international conflict whenever possible. The US can provoke Iran all it wants because Iranian missiles cannot reach them, but that isn't the same for us.

      The NAM without China, Brazil, India, Russia, and Pakistan is nothing, and all of those countries have a much larger vested interest in siding with the US or NATO over Iran. Very few of the 120 countries present consider themselves friends with Iran: India is obviously wary of Islamic theocracies, Russia and China have issues with their own Muslim populations and have much greater economic links with the West, the Pakistani military is funded by the US, every Sunni country (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Egypt, etc.) dislikes Iran, Turkey is a member of NATO... I could go on all day.

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