India warns against any attack on Iran
NEW DELHI (AFP) — India is "gravely concerned" over reports suggesting the use of military force against Iran and is strongly against any such action, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
There has been concern an attack against Iran could be imminent after it emerged Israel had practised a strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.
"India is gravely concerned at these statements threatening the use of military force against Iran," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
"India is against any such military attack, which constitutes unacceptable international behaviour. There is no military solution to the issues that are being discussed between Iran and the international community."
India's comments come after Iran intensified international tensions on the nuclear issue by conducting two days of tests, which included the firing of a missile that it says can reach Israel.
The United States and its regional ally Israel have never ruled out a military attack to end Iran's controversial nuclear work, which the West fears could be used to make weapons -- a charge vehemently denied by Tehran.
Energy-hungry India, which enjoys warm relations with Iran, expects to finalise a deal on a 7.5-billion-dollar pipeline that will transport gas from the Middle East to here via Pakistan.
New Delhi says Tehran has the right to peaceful use of nuclear energy but has asked it to cooperate with the United Nations nuclear watchdog.
India has previously rejected pressure from Washington not to do business with Iran, viewed in the US as a state sponsor of terrorism and seen as bent on acquiring nuclear weapons.
Earlier this year, New Delhi told the US not to interfere in its dealings with Iran after a State Department spokesman said Washington would like India to put pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme.
"India calls upon all concerned Governments to exercise restraint and choose the peaceful path of persuasion and negotiations," the foreign ministry said."
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Israel uses America's and Europe's oil dependency as back-up for their own ambitions to militarily rule the Near East and all its oil supplies in order to protect itself from its Arab neighbors and the Palestinian population it is at war with. Iran cannot be allowed to become a military power in the Near East just as Iraq could not either. Only Israel is allowed nukes and freedom to militarily intervene in other people's nations, even committing crimes against humanity as Israelis allowed their Phalange partners to do to Palestinians under Ariel Sharon' command in the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps in Lebanon.
No one in the West protests this geopolitical war being conducted by Israeli Jews against Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East because Islam is our new Communist Menace and boy, can Big Business make money off these wars with Arab Muslims! Meanwhile, no Muslim nation in the Near East can rise to prominent position amongst Muslim nations, lest it threaten Israel's security. One would think the U.N. would intervene but long ago the U.N., as a puppet of Western Powers after WW II, created the Israel problem in the first place.
Strange that the U.N. so often cited for lack of real political power has been allowed to create the monstrosity of the last European religious colonials escaping European persecution only to inflict the same on the indigenous population of another Third World country. But not so strange when one sees that Western Powers still very much run the U.N. their way at the expense of any other geopolitical group, especially Muslims.
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The United Nations pretty much bows to the will of the USA. Perhaps with a new American foreign policy that contains less bombastic rhetoric and fewer threats of military intervention under a new President, The U.N. will realize it's glorious potential.
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