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‘India could gain from Iran deal’

The emerging US-Iran agreement has significant implications for India, including energy corridors, fertilizer supplies, and revival of the Chabahar Port project. As Gulf tensions ease, New Delhi faces a strategic crossroads that could reshape connectivity with Central Asia and Afghanistan.

Lesson learnt?

After cutting and running from Afghanistan last year, and having earlier effectively Balkanised an Iraq which under the Ba’ath Socialists/Saddam Hussein was a functional, secular ~ albeit criminally oppressive ~ state, the US Administration has now clarified that nation-building is expressly not a part of Washington’s agenda in countries where it has intervened militarily, more often than not on a dodgy legal basis.