Ahmadinejad interview: If pressure continues, Iran can change mind on NPT
“The United States and its European allies are really not looking for a dialogue”, Iran’s President tells The Hindu. 10 August 2006The Hindu If pressure continues, Iran can change mind … Continue reading
Ahmadinejad keen on energy ties with India
“Our relationship not one to be affected by a mistake”. 10 August 2006The Hindu Ahmadinejad keen on energy ties with India Iranian parliament’s views on LNG deal will be known … Continue reading
"For the U.S., the nuclear issue of Iran is just an excuse"
As Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani is Iran’s top nuclear negotiator. In an interview with The Hindu in Tehran on Saturday, he discussed Iran’s nuclear programme, … Continue reading
Larijani interview: Iran wants nuclear talks, but not at gunpoint
Tehran’s top nuclear negotiator says his country has no problem with India’s nuclear deal, only with U.S. ‘double standards’. 6 August 2006The Hindu Iran wants nuclear talks, but not at … Continue reading
Qana massacre and the Security Council
The primary role of any Chapter VII resolution or expanded U.N. peacekeeping force must be to protect Lebanon from Israeli aggression. 1 August 2006The Hindu Qana massacre and the Security … Continue reading
Beware the ‘new order’ Israel is imposing
No peace or stability can emerge in West Asia through occupation, subjugation, and the military slaughter of civilians. 29 July 2006The Hindu Beware the ‘new order’ Israel is imposingSiddharth Varadarajan … Continue reading
So southern Lebanon is now in Israel?
After first bombing a clearly-marked United Nations observation post at Khiyyam in southern Lebanon, killing four international observers from the UN Truce Supervision Organisation, Israel is now saying they will … Continue reading
Nuclear Deal: Questions arise on reprocessing restrictions
Spent fuel treatment will require separate U.S. consent. And Congress will not waive Section 129 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act, as the Bush administration had promised India in March. … Continue reading
"Safeguards, end to U.S. restrictions must be interlocking actions"
M.R. Srinivasan, member of the Atomic Energy Commission, spells out his worries about new conditions being imposed on India by the U.S. Congress in its draft law authorising the resumption … Continue reading
A Call to Honour: Not exactly total recall
Jaswant Singh provides a partial account of a key period in Indian diplomacy. He may have been answering a call to honour but there are clearly events and decisions that … Continue reading
Indian Maoists criticise Prachanda
Say multiparty democracy, U.N. supervision a “dangerous” mistake. 24 July 2006The Hindu Indian Maoists criticise Prachanda Siddharth Varadarajan BELYING SPECULATION of a unified red corridor from “Pashupati to Tirupati,” the … Continue reading
Limit to tolerance, but options are limited too
Despite the Musharraf regime’s equivocation on terrorism, India will gain nothing by allowing the authors of the Mumbai blasts to disrupt the peace process with Pakistan. 17 July 2006The Hindu … Continue reading
The nuclear deal and ‘minimum deterrence’
The Indo-U.S. nuclear agreement will raise the financial and political costs of the Indian nuclear weapons programme but it does not impose a legal bar on the production of fissile … Continue reading
Assessing the nuclear balance sheet
The U.S. wants a decisive say in the scripting of India’s safeguards and additional protocol agreements with the IAEA but is withholding “full” civil nuclear cooperation. 7 July 2006The Hindu … Continue reading
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