NEWS DELHI: India’s decision to pull out of the Chabahar port project has clearly revealed the real nature of its relationship with Iran.
By abandoning the agreement with Iran under just slight pressure from the United States in order to protect its own interests, India has once again proven its double-faced foreign policy.
According to reports in the Indian media, India had already paid Tehran the agreed amount of 120 million dollars before the new sanctions came into effect.
All government-nominated directors on the board of India Ports Global Limited resigned together, and the company’s website was also taken down to protect people and organizations from any possible fallout of the American sanctions. Economic experts believe that although India appeared to invest in Iran’s Chabahar port for development purposes, it was actually using the port for hidden and questionable intentions.
It is now obvious that India Ports Global Limited was set up specifically to gain control over Chabahar.
Analysts say the renewed U.S. sanctions created the danger that the company’s true purpose would be exposed, which could have caused serious damage to India’s international image.
Some experts have even suggested that India’s intelligence agency RAW might have been carrying out secret activities through this port, and after the tensions between Iran and Israel, Iranian authorities had already become highly alert to possible conspiracies being planned from there.
Specialists feel that leaving the port was seen as the best way to save India’s reputation, and it was considered better to drop the earlier claim of having principled and long-term relations with Iran.
In the end, India chose to ignore its promises and long-standing partnership commitments to Iran simply to serve its own interests, once again exposing the false image of its so-called balanced foreign policy.
