India’s Iran Policy in the Post-Cold War Period

Gulshan Dietl

Archive data: Person was Senior Fellow (ICSSR) at IDSA Professor Gulshan Dietl is an ICSSR Senior Fellow affiliated to the IDSA. She retired as a Professor at the School of… Continue reading India’s Iran Policy in the Post-Cold War Period read more

The article proposes to trace India’s relations with Iran in the post-Cold War period, to identify the highs and lows in its contours and analyse the current situation. No country, however powerful, can formulate and implement its policy towards another in a total vacuum. India’s Iran policy, as well as its foreign policy on the whole, reflects its domestic and external concerns and compulsions. India’s need to secure its interests and broaden its options is unexceptionable. However, abstaining on Iran’s nuclear issue and declining to launch the Israeli spy satellite to monitor Iranian territory would have been well within India’s interests and external expectations.