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To: kumar who wrote (68962)	1/26/2003 4:37:57 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Let's keep an eye on this development <thanks kumar> --fl Geopolitics binds India, Iran MANOJ JOSHI TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2003 12:55:34 AM ] NEW DELHI : The presence of Iranian President Seyyed Mohammed Khatami as the chief guest at the Republic Day parade on Sunday is a tribute to the manner in which geography affects politics. If things go as the two countries have outlined in the New Delhi Declaration, both countries stand to gain from this relationship. The most important outcome would be that India would be able to bypass the Pakistani blockade and rapidly open up new rail and road routes to Afghanistan and Central Asia through the port of Chah Bahar . A delegation of Iranian businessmen is also in India at this time, exploring the possibility of developing a North-South corridor through a bigger port at Bandar Abbas to become an alternate route to the Russian Federation and Europe .Iran also hopes to create a new sea-bridge to supply LNG to India . What binds the two countries is a key axiom of geopolitics - my enemy's enemy is my friend. Pakistan is not quite an adversary of Iran , but the twisted clerics who send jehadi terrorists to India are also the ones who consider the 20 per cent Shias of Pakistan as apostates and attack them. As a result, the kind of trust that Pakistan enjoyed during the 1971 war when Iran supplied Islamabad with fighters and spare parts has gone and been replaced by wary mistrust. Anothing important binding factor is that Iran , like India , has a sense of its own history and its place in the world. This came from a joint perception that Pakistan 's control of Afghanistan was a negative development. Teheran and New Delhi therefore cooperated in backing the Northern Alliance and are determined to check Pakistan in Afghanistan . Iran also wants to ensure that it is not hemmed in by the US and is seeking Indian investments to develop infrastructure as well as markets for its oil products. But the logic of New Delhi 's search for better relations comes from a glance at the map. Bordering Central Asia and dominating the Persian Gulf and the Arabian peninsula ,Iran is a key Islamic country as well as well-endowed with oil and natural gas. But what a map does not quite say is that Iran is huge, about half the size of India, has vast reserves of oil and is a market for the kind of goods India would like to export.

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