A weak & jittery Manmohan Singh government jeopardizes the future of four million Indian expatriates in the Persian Gulf Shia-majority Arab countries and puts a major source of Oil from Shia-majority Iran at risk by voting for the anti-Iran resolution at last weeks Vienna meeting of the UNs' International Atomic Energy Agency
NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET TILL THE SIKHS HAVE A FREE KHALISTAN
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - The safety and well-being of the four million Indian expatriates (most of them hailing from Indias' minorities) earning good money in the Shia-majority Arab states, of the Persian Gulf, (and hundreds of thousands more working in Iran) have been put at risk, along with endangering a reliable source of oil for India, by last weeks' hasty decision of the weak, confused and jittery Indian government when its' representative, (unlike the representatives of Pakistan and Sri Lanka) joined the anti-Iran camp at a meeting of the IAEA (the UNs' Interntional Atomic Energy Agency) in Vienna, Austria.Delhi bolted the ranks of the non-aligned world, under Western diplomatic pressure, while countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Yemen, Vietnam and others, in marked contrast to India, held their ground, during a crucial anti-Iran vote at the meeting of the 35 Governors of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) in Vienna last week. The IAEA vote puts Iran on notice for its socalled covert 'nuke' activities, in breech of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, it had signed years ago, and threatens Tehran that it would be reported to the UN Security Council for imposition of sanctions, come November, if it does not cooperate with the IAEA. Please read BBC report headlined, "UN adopts motion on nuclear Iran." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4277054.stm)
The following 22 countries voted for the successful anti-Iran IAEA resolution in Vienna, Austria, last week: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America. Venezuela voted against the resolution.The following 12 countries (including tiny countries like Sri Lanka and Tunisia) did not buckle under Western diplomatic pressure, like India did, and abstained:- Algeria, Brazil, China, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Vietnam and Yemen. The lack of approval by China and Russia of the resolution means that even if the IAEA Governors decide, in November 2005, to recommend to the UN Security Council that sanctions should be placed on Iran for breech of the NPT, the vetoes of these two powers in the Security Council - China & Russia - will pigeonhole the resolution.
Stories planted in the Indian media claim that PM Manmohan Singh, on the last day of his stay in New York this month,on September 16, "made public his fears for the safety of nearly four million Indians in the Gulf in the event of diplomacy failing to persuade Iran away from a confrontation with the US and others on the nuclear issue. Singh knows that whatever he has done on the economic front in the last year and a half as Prime Minister and much of what he did as finance minister in the 1990s will be under threat if the Gulf was plunged into another war." Read K. P. Nayars' Telegraph story headlined, "Gulf factor key to PMs' Iran vote decision," by clicking at: www.telegraphindia.com/1050926/asp/nation/story_5284580.asp. The Iranians have already singled out India for special criticism. Just today, according to the Times of India, Iranian spokesperson Hamid Reza Assefi said Iran was surprised by India's vote. "We will reconsider our economic cooperation with those countries that voted against us," he said. (To read the Times if India report please click st: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1244615.cms) India should get ready for the next Iranian retaliation against its interests in the Shia-majority Persian Gulf Arab states where Indias' four million expatriates live and prosper.
Dezinformatsiya like the above Telegraph newspaper story not-withstanding, it is obvious that the irrational Indian behavior at the IAEAs' Governors' meeting in Vienna on September 24, 2005, has also something to do with Pakistan, because India had been assuring Iran, at the highest level, of its support, at the IAEA, right upto mid-September 2005. Diplomatic observors have noticed that the Indian leaders have been in a state of panic eversince Pakistan's President Pervaiz Musharraf launched his unprecidented, and very successful diplomatic 'offensive' to normalize his Muslim-majority countrys' relations with the Information media savvy Jewish-majority mini-super-power, Israel. Pakistan's diplomacy was at its best when the President of the very influential World Jewish Congress, Mr. Jack Rosen, welcomed, and 'broke bread' with the Pakistani President, on September 17, 2005, at a public New York function, watched by the world's fifteen million Jews. The September 17 New York dinner function, (www.ajcongress.org/rosen_intro_musharaf.htm) organized after a two year long secret effort, by the World Jewish Congress President, was later that evening addressed by President Musharraf who was given a number of standing ovations. Better late than never as this get together should have taken place decades ago as the raison d`etre of both Jewish Israel and Muslim Pakistan (like Sikh Khalistan) is the same!
A few days following President Musharrafs' September 17 address to the World Jewish Congress, in New York, the September 22 statement of influential US Congressman Gary Ackerman of NewYork (a long-standing 'Jewish friend of India' who has steadfastly pushed for pro-India legislation on Capitol Hill) was the proverbial 'last straw on the Indian Camels' back.' which sent the Indian government into a tizzy. Congressman Ackerman, Chairman of the India Caucus in the US House of Representatives, said that he believes that India will not get the support needed in the House of Representatives to clear any Bush Administration proposal for the civilian nuclear cooperation agreed upon in the July 2005 Bush/ Manmohan meeting in Washington DC. Read about Congressman Ackermans' statememnt in the Pioneer, an Indian right wing English language newspaper by clicking at: www.dailypioneer.com/archives2/default1.asp?month=sep&day=24&year=05
Veteran Indian journalist, Prem Shankar Jha writing in one of India's leading English language News Magazine OUTLOOK (www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20051003&fname=Column+Prem+%28F%29&sid=1) condemns Indias' backstab of Iran by saying that, "The Indian media has virtually ignored last week's news over whether or not to refer Iran's supposed nuclear delinquency to the UN Security Council, possibly for the imposition of sanctions. This is unfortunate because a closer look at how Iran is being dragged to the dock shows another Iraq may well be in the making. In the past several months, western governments have done their utmost to convince the world that Iran is determined to build nuclear weapons and has been hoodwinking the IAEA in order to do so. It has not succeeded so far but its intentions have not changed. Even the most intensive policing by the IAEA cannot guarantee that Iran will not be able to make nuclear weapons clandestinely. The western media has swallowed this line so completely that in the public mind, Iran's guilt is now beyond doubt. But a closer look at the case that has been built shows it is born of acute paranoia and manufactured from the same disinformation which convinced the world that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, had hoodwinked the UN and remained a threat so long as Saddam Hussein was in power. The roots of the paranoia lie precisely where they lay in the case of Iraq. America has made an undying enemy of Iran and sealed that relationship by describing it as part of an axis of evil. Iran has the oil wealth, the technological capability and the acute sense of isolation and fear to build nuclear weapons."
It is obvious that the summersault by the Indian representative at the IAEA meeting in Vienna on September 24, 2005, exhibited the proverbial Indian double faced timid mentality when he voted against Iran (Indias' national interest be damned) under diplomatic pressure. With this stupid gutless act, in Vienna, India has handed over Irans' vast energy resources to oil-hungry China against whose influence India is being propped up as a bulwark by some naive 'experts' in the US Administration. Some bulwark made of jelly!
In a leader page essay in the HINDU newspaper headlined, "The unravelling of India's Persian puzzle" Siddharth Varadarajan, makes some interesting comments when he writes (www.thehindu.com/2005/09/27/stories/2005092703011000.htm) that, "ALL its pretensions to a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, India on Saturday flunked its first real test as a rising world power. Where no less than 11 countries smaller and less powerful than us - Venezuela, Algeria, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Yemen - had the courage and good sense to join Russia and China in refusing to endorse the U.S.-backed agenda of confrontation with Iran, India threw in its lot with Washington and the European troika.
Scared by a well-choreographed bout of shadow boxing at the start of Congressional hearings on the July 18 Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, the Manmohan Singh Government convinced itself that it had to side with Washington's unreasonable pressure on Iran. In doing so, the Government has betrayed its own lack of strategic confidence - this at a time when the fine print of the nuclear deal is about to be negotiated and the slightest sign of diplomatic weakness will be used by Washington to push the envelope on issues like the scope of international safeguards and inspections India must accept in order to see the July 18 agreement through.......
Siddharth Varadarajan concludes his essay thus,"If not today, then five years from now, the logic of India's economic growth will compel a rewriting of the rules of international nuclear commerce for the country - this time not as a concession or favour from the U.S. but as the product of objective market forces. By blackmailing India into voting against Iran, the U.S. hopes to undermine Indo-Iranian economic relations to such an extent that New Delhi becomes a stakeholder in the drive for 'regime change' there. How much the world has changed in a year. A country (India) that once condemned the invasion of Iraq and refused to send its soldiers there is today in danger of becoming an accessory to the strangulation and targeting of Iran." End quote.
It is frightening that even those Indians, in the media and intelligencia, who are in opposition to the current Congress party ruling coalition in Delhi, criticize it's representatives' conduct at the IAEA (the UNs' Interntional Atomic Energy Agency) in Vienna, Austria, but not one of them, not one, has had the moral courage to demand a Nuclear Freeze or a Nuclear Free South Asia as we Sikhs have been doing for years. India is stuck in the pits, at 116th ranking in the UN's Human Development Report for the past three years at the same ranking - a world record - yet no one is trying to get India unstuck and improve the lives of the billion Indians living in squalor. The only way for the 25 million Sikhs stuck in India, is to get unstuck, and create an independent democratic buffer state of Khalistan between the Jumna river on the East and the Pakistan border on the West, Kashmir in the North and China on the North East which will act as a bridge of peace and commerce between South Asia and Central Asia.