{"id":3555,"date":"2017-07-05T15:13:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T09:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T06:23:49","slug":"why-india-needs-to-mend-its-international-policy-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-india-needs-to-mend-its-international-policy-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India needs to mend its International policy with Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s relation with Tehran needs <strong>remodeling<\/strong>, considering the recent drop in trade and economic ties.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>India-Iran Bilateral Ties<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DqV6l9tfx3\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/india-iran-bilateral-ties\/\">India- Iran Bilateral Relations<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;India- Iran Bilateral Relations&#8221; &#8212; ForumIAS Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/india-iran-bilateral-ties\/embed\/#?secret=DqV6l9tfx3\" data-secret=\"DqV6l9tfx3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mutual Benefit <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India and Iran both requires stabilized Afghanistan, since the return of Taliban in Kabul would affect crucial interests of both the nations.<\/li>\n<li>Iran is the only country without the US dominance which stands between India and the West, which has massive reserves of both oil and gas.<\/li>\n<li>India ignored the <strong>Iran\u2013Pakistan\u2013India (IPI)<\/strong> gas pipeline project from the overall unfriendly relationship with Pakistan. Gas exports to Pakistan and India would give Iran valuable long-term customers.<\/li>\n<li>India does not want to see another nuclear weapons state in Persian Gulf that would instigate countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey to also acquire nuclear weapons. India has not been assisting Iran\u2019s nuclear programme except as permitted by the <strong>IAEA<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>India could also be a source of important defense equipment and technologies for Iran. India\u2019s hesitation may be related to the sensitivities of Israel, a nation that has sturdy ties with India.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s relations with Iran are integral and the reformist regime of <strong>Hassan Rouhani<\/strong> is looking for a wider global involvement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kashmir Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader<strong> Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/strong> ended up equating the Kashmir conflict with those in Yemen and Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>In 2010, Ayatollah emphasized the need to safeguard the unity of Muslims from all over the world and sympathized towards the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Kashmir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Qatar Catastrophe<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ayatollah\u2019s expressed concern about getting regionally isolated primarily due to Donald Trump administration\u2019s hard line against Tehran that prompted Saudi Arabia and its allies to squeeze Iran out of the regional matrix.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>de facto blockade of Qatar<\/strong> by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after isolating diplomatic ties last month highlights this reality.<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaged in a range of proxy wars across the region in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, apart from their growing hostility in Iraq.<\/li>\n<li>Since the inception of the Iranian revolution, Riyadh and Tehran have struggled to lead together with their own respective interests.<\/li>\n<li>An attack on Iran\u2019s Parliament on June 7, for which it blames Saudi Arabia, has further heightened the tensions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hRqiHvu7yj\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/learn-all-about-gcc-crisis\/\">Learn all about Qatar crisis<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Learn all about Qatar crisis&#8221; &#8212; ForumIAS Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/learn-all-about-gcc-crisis\/embed\/#?secret=hRqiHvu7yj\" data-secret=\"hRqiHvu7yj\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s approach<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The emergence of the Kashmir issue in India-Iran bilateral dialogue is not new. The fact that India has always been wary of Iran\u2019s support for Pakistan in the <strong>Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)<\/strong> regarding Kashmir, is well known<\/li>\n<li>Iranian criticism of India\u2019s position on Kashmir has repeatedly sparked protests within the Indian government against Iranian interference.<\/li>\n<li>The Ayatollah\u2019s recent utterance on Kashmir might be a signal to India that its growing closeness to Saudi Arabia and the UAE is being watched closely in Tehran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Impact on Economic ties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The recent decline in economic ties is of great concern to both countries, especially India.<\/li>\n<li>Iran seems to be sluggish in deciding to award the contract for gas exploration in its Farzad B offshore field to <strong>ONGC Videsh<\/strong>. This has triggered to a further decrease in volume of Iranian crude oil to India.<\/li>\n<li>On the contrary, there are reports of Tehran \u2013 Russia initial agreement for the contract.<\/li>\n<li>The unhurried pace of the Chabahar port project has further displeased Iran. Tehran has invited Pakistan and China to get involved in the project. From India\u2019s perspective, this dents the very strategic utility of the port that was seen as the India\u2019s answer to the Gwadar project (by China and Pakistan)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way Ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A lot remains to be done to ensure the sustenance of economic ties and repair with the Rouhani government as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<li>There are far too many issues, including the future of Afghanistan, that require closer coordination between the two countries<\/li>\n<li>While New Delhi has done well to ignore the Ayatollah\u2019s provocation on Kashmir, it needs to effectively architect a well balanced policy to mend economical ties with Tehran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context India\u2019s relation with Tehran needs remodeling, considering the recent drop in trade and economic ties. India-Iran Bilateral Ties India- Iran Bilateral Relations Mutual Benefit India and Iran both requires stabilized Afghanistan, since the return of Taliban in Kabul would affect crucial interests of both the nations. Iran is the only country without the US&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-india-needs-to-mend-its-international-policy-with-iran\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why India needs to mend its International policy with Iran?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[42,61],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-social","tag-india","tag-iran","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/INDIA-IRAN.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704881759},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}