Why was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in such a tearing hurry at the G-8 summit in Japan last week to announce that India would go ahead with the Indo-US deal while external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee was announcing that the government would do so only after demonstrating its majority on the floor of the Lok Sabha.
The answer, according to Sitaram Yechuri, is Iran.
The CPI(M) member of Parliament, writing in the Hindustan Times makes a point Seymour Hersh made in The New Yorker, that with Israel making preparations to launch a pre-emptive air strike against Iran’s alleged nuclear facilities, pressure was growing on New Delhi, especially with time running out for Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert facing corruption charges.
“If such an attack on Iran happens, then it would be virtually impossible to ‘sell’ the go-ahead on the Indo-US nuclear deal to sections of the Congress and the UPA allies. This explains the desperate hurry to move ahead.”
Read the full article: Why did you turn your back on the nation, Mr PM?
Link courtesy Anand V.
churumuri 
If at all an attack happens and the deal go through, we might see some American Choppers and Stealths refueling and resting in Gujarat or some where in North West. But, that seriously doesn’t matter to much of us these days. After all Iran is a rogue nation,especially a Muslim one, aint it?
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someone please be kind to explain this….why would an attack by Israel make it difficult to sell the deal in India?
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>>someone please be kind to explain this….why would an attack by Israel make it difficult to sell the deal in India?
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It is very simple. Iran is a mullah country and if israel attacks it with US approval, it would be difficult for any congress government to go ahead signing the deal with big satan US, as that would cost them precious minority votes here. As some mullah’s from UP have already said that it is against our national interest to sign this deal, Sitaram Yechuri is also toeing the same line but with a difference, that is against national interest of China.
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Because no one would want to support the “evil”, “imperialist” US then.
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Tha answer is not Iran – it is moron – as in Communist Party of India (Morons). Corruption charges against Olmert – does the pipsqueak Yechuri even understand what he is talking about? Israel is committed to ensure that the Holocaust will not be repeated. No mad mullah anywhere is going to wipe out Israel as a mad religious fundamentalist did during the WW2. Simple.
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“Why PM rushed where Pranab feared to tread”…????
Elementary My Dear Watson!
Let us not forget the past of both Communist who believe to ‘wreck the system from with in’ and Congress who believes rather too seriously, ‘as a natural/blessed party for governance’. Though they never ever gave two hoot to democracy and/or to parliamentary norms. Look around, and you find ‘instances’ galore.
Consider this, Dear Watson…
a.) Sitaram: A Congressi in red rags.
b.) Pranab M: A Communist under Gandhi topi.
Both were just doing their jobs as ’embedded Netas’ in their respective roles for their respective allegiances.
TILL D’DAY.
D’day is what MMS said and when.
That is when both CpiM and Congress had ‘ensured’ the survival of MMS Govt by what ever means by stitching up SP’s support.
However, an old proverb ‘There are many slips between cup and lips’, pooped up via AB Bardhan . This man seems to have spoil the party a bit, much to the chagrin of both ’embedded netas’.
All we see unfolding is a ‘scripted drama’ gone haywire due to some non actors. But I see no reason for the Govt to fall. I see no logic for the NDA to pull down the govt. After all, at least I will not kill a man who is hell bent to commit suicide, even if he/she is my sworn enemy, it is only a matter of some time!
PI.
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The tale in the sting
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