Indian communists can support Iran on nuke issue but India does not: BJP
Preetam Sohani
Feb. 14, 2006

Enough is enough. It is time for India to welcome US President George Bush and be proud of Indian stand on Iranian nuke issue. The last thing India needs is nukes in the hands of Iran. Pakistan itself is something like a nightmare but to that if Iran or Saudis are added, India and Israel will have no place to go.

According to media reports, along the RSS line, the main Opposition BJP virtually endorsed the Government's vote against Iran at the IAEA meeting saying it was not in India's interest to have another nuclear neighbor in its vicinity.

But the party attacked the Government for the "impression" that it has surrendered its sovereign rights to take decisions on key issues and "permitted to be hustled and pressurized into voting in a particular manner".

A statement after a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party executive, chaired by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which discussed the issue, stopped short of coming out in open support of the Indian vote at IAEA saying it was not in India's interests to see Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.

"India can clearly neither ignore, nor minimise the strategic implications and adverse consequences of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. It was therefore patently in India's interests to have been in the forefront of that vast majority of the international community questioning the many clandestine devices through which nuclear technology and material have been transferred to Iran from Pakistan and several other countries.

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