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India's backing of IAEA resolution against Iran is a signal of the end of nonaligned movement
When India decided to side with United States and Europeans against Iran and vote accordingly in the IAEA resolution, the world got a very interesting signal. It spelled the end of non-aligned movement that India championed when India called itself a developing country.
Today things have changed. India looks for outsourcing dollars, nuclear energy cooperation, missile shields against China and Pakistan from America. India has silently moved into the American block while maintaining close relationship with Russia. India has also very shrewdly improved relations with China.
What has suffered though is the non-aligned movement that modern founding fathers and mothers of India dreamed. Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi – all championed in leading the non-aligned movement.
Today India is different. It is opportunist, openly diplomatic and shrewdly strategic. But has India sacrificed the dignity of independence?
Indian politicians feel the vote against Iran was to help Iran realize that Iran must compromise and settle disputes with the West. But Iran does not think that. Iran feels this is the end of non-aligned movement as we know it.
According to media sources from Iran, Mrs Eshrat Shayeq, a member of the Majlis majority faction, has said that India's support of the IAEA Board of Governors'' resolution [against Iran] and its endorsement of American policy will present it with a serious challenge in the Non-Aligned Movement.
Talking to a correspondent of Fars News Agency, the MP for Tabriz said: India's vote for the EU trio's resolution against Iran's peaceful nuclear activities stems from the extensive link of that country with America and the Zionist regime.
She stressed: The recent nuclear contract between India and America and India's strong dependency on Israeli equipment were instrumental in the decision of the Indian government which should now respond to public opinion in India and be accountable at an international level.
Mrs Shayeq, a member of the Majlis Article 90 Committee, added: Pursuant to available records, India and the regime occupying Bayt Al-Maqdis have signed over 50 military agreements in recent years and India has become the third largest market for Israel's arms and military equipment.
Without a doubt, she said, the continuation of such a stance by India against the Islamic Republic of Iran will affect bilateral ties.
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