India to Continue Iran Pipeline Talks--Daily Star (in US' face)

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch up now at http://zianet.com/insightanalytical
Tomorrow at Buzzflash.com

(see companion article on how "India is the New US American Dream" HA HA HA!!!!



4//The Daily Star, Lebanon Monday, July 25, 2005

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=17039



INDIA TO CONTINUE IRAN PIPELINE TALKS

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

NEW DELHI: India will press ahead with talks on a pipeline deal to deliver natural gas from Iran despite an agreement with the U.S. for the sale of civilian nuclear technology, weekend reports said. Oil Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, who this year secured Cabinet approval for the pipeline first mooted in 1994, said the nuclear technology agreement with Washington was not a "quid pro quo" for abandoning the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline.



"I don't think there's any connection between the two," said Aiyar when asked if India had promised to scrap efforts to import natural gas from Iran in return for Washington providing nuclear technology and fuel for power generation, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.



On Monday U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would ask Congress as well as allied nations to lift sanctions preventing Indian access to civil nuclear technology after talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Washington.



India was denied access to large nuclear reactors and fuel under sanctions imposed on it after it conducted nuclear tests in 1974 and later in 1998.



Washington opposes the 2,600-kilometer pipeline, voicing its objections to New Delhi buying gas from Iran. The U.S. accuses Iran of supporting terrorism and trying to build a nuclear bomb.

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[eleny]

1. No kidding?!

I thought W offered India the nuclear lollipop in exchange for them abandoning the pipeline.

[Demeter]

2. I Thought It Was Because India Had Bush By The Balls

and he had to make nice for sucking up to Pakistan and getting bupkis for it.

[DELUSIONAL]

3. So Condi isn't as effective as advertised???

[54anickel]

4. So he's asking other nations to lift sanctions on India, but impose

sanctions agains arm sales to China. He's suddenly the one who gets to determine who gets what from whom? He's telling the world who is good, who is evil, and who might be evil but he can't come right out and say that because we owe them big buck-a-roos. :crazy:

I hope we get to impeach this guy soon because he's really making a bad name for us out there. That alone should be grounds enough.

[cliss]

5. There. You said it better than I could.

Would you believe, we have our fingers in every country on the face of this Earth. It's truly mind-boggling. The State Department gives new meaning to the term "Co-dependent", or "controller".

We simply will not or cannot leave other countries to their own affairs. Even little Borneo is not exempt. Just recently, Bush issued some guidelines for the tribes. They were told "not to engage in any head-hunting, or any other harassment of neighbouring tribes". Or else.

Even little Madagascar got notice: they were not to engage in any trading of agates or hand-made pottery with neighbouring countries on the mainland, or they would be slapped with trade sanctions.