Iran: The report that never was!

Iran seems to be more in the news these days and not for all the right reasons. The latest round in the Iran-U.S war of the meek seems to have ended in the favor of Iran. The leakage of the intelligence report telling one and all that Iran seems to have halted its nuclear weapons program way back in 2003 is not all that surprising to those who know the Iranians well. For those who do know the Iranians well, know that they have this inherent tactic for survival and that they will never take the foolhardy path of Saddam Hussein. They well know that to take that path will only lead to total and utter destruction on all sides and that it is indeed better to live and let live. On that thought, did you know that the ancient school of philosophy can be traced back to Iran and that it is in Iran that it had its roots and not in Greece as many think so!

This intelligence report has come at a time that the United states is going hammer and tongs at getting even more sanctions against Iran approved by the Security council. For one, this report does make things a little bit difficult for the United states to push for even more tougher sanctions. And anyone can see that to most Americans today, Iran and its hardliners still represent a threat not because of their religion or the fact that Iran thinks that Israel does not exist, but for the fact that many Americans were taken hostage during the Iranian revolution. What irks the Americans to this day is the fact that many Americans were taken hostage in the American embassy in Teheran. This baggage is one of the main reasons why America today finds it so difficult to even get along with Iran. The past is in the past and that is easier said than done, but it is high time that both these countries realise that there is nothing to be gained by holding onto past grudges. They should really take a page from the India-Pakistan book, the whole world knows the legendary rivalry between those two and today, they are not against each other, at least not the way that they were in the 1970's. They have matured and come a long way since then.

One thing is for sure, the other countries can breath a sigh of relief as they know that the United states would not be pressing that hard for sanctions this time around and that the Nuclear watchdog and mr.ElBaradei can go about their job and make sure that Iran has indeed complied with the IAEA rules and that Iran is only involved in fuel enrichment for peaceful purposes!

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The nuclear deal may get inked sooner than later!

With things going the way it has been for both the United States and India,getting the Nuclear deal through had transformed from being in mutual interest to quite essential for the relationship between the world's oldest and the largest democracies.the current political government in India,the Congress may seem gung-ho on the Nuclear deal but to the Hoi-polloi of India's literate,they would have been extremely happy had this deal fallen through.as far as the literate citizens are concerned they regard this deal as a loss of sovereignty.to be fair,this deal is indeed highly intrusive so this opinion on their part is not exactly surprising.
But now that the deal is almost sure to get inked through,the question especially in the minds of George bush and Manmohan singh is,what next?although this deal may indeed be a highly intrusive deal,India should now concentrate on acquiring additional sources of fuel supplies and not solely depend on nuclear power in the future.what is more India should find some way of converting the huge amounts of thorium that it has and utilise that as nuclear fuel so as to insulate itself against any breakdown in the supply of nuclear fuel to its reactors.politics is cheap and dirty.you never know if the deal signed by the last government will be honored by the current one.after all,"there is no honor amongst......"