Iran-India gas pipeline on its way

[rainbow4321]

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=80021&cat=Business

Talks on a natural gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan are progressing well and mainly await a pact over price, delivery and transmission routes, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has said.

"As far as the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline is concerned, I had two meetings with my counterpart in Iran. Then we had one techno-commercial discussion in New Delhi followed by a techno-commercial workshop in Tehran," the minister said.

"Yes, we are all aware of the US concern over Iran's nuclear programme, and we are all together trying to find a solution to that under the aegis of the International Atomic Energy Programme," he said. "I think many of these fears hit the headlines, and there is no truth in them. What concerns me much more is the pace at which we are progressing."

As explained by External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh in parliament, ties between India and the US are now sufficiently mature for New Delhi to be able to contain any difference in the perception of national interest, he said.

[varun]

1. Take this...Condi

India has shown Condi the finger...

[rainbow4321]

2. And is on the fast track to becoming...

part of chimp's "Axis of Evil", no doubt.

[enid602]

3. India

Combine these developments with India's recent announcement to buy 50 Boeing aircraft, and I don't see how * will ever be able to attack Iran. God, those Indians are crafty.

[Theduckno2]

4. Should anything happen to the Iran-India pipeline, Bush and Boeing

would do well to remember how long Pakistan waited for its F-16s after it tested its nuclear weapon. Crafty indeed!:)

[MisterP]

5. Chimpy likes Musharraf and hates the Indian Congress (librul

follers of that Gandhi hippie).
China, India, and Iran are forming a triangle, with Russia as an epicyclic. In the Middle East and neighboring lands, the Chimp has control and alliance of Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, and Turkmenistan, forming rings around the Caspian and Black seas (another low blow for Russia).
Iran, Syria, and Lebanon complete the empire, or collection.
Somewhere, Brzezinski rubs his hands together. (And Kissinger).

[allemand]

6. "US wants gas pipeline from Turkmenistan, not from Iran" (March 2005)

The Dawn, 25 March 2005
By Anwar Iqbal

WASHINGTON, March 24: The United States wants India and Pakistan to build a gas pipeline but instead of Iran it should come from Turkmenistan, says an influential Indo-American newspaper.

Quoting diplomatic sources, the India Abroad newspaper reports in its latest issue that the US had conveyed its desire for the construction of this new gas pipeline to India even before Secretary of State visited New Delhi last week and publicly acknowledged that Washington did not want India to buy gas from Iran.

The influential weekly newspaper says the pipeline Washington wants built will come from Turkmenistan -- through Afghanistan and Pakistan -- to India. The report says that the US was initially quiet on India's efforts to buy gas from Iran because it wanted to remove New Delhi's objections to a pipeline through Pakistan and once this was achieved, Washington began to push the alternative project, the Turkmenistan pipeline. (...)

The first salvo in this game was fired by the US Ambassador to India, David Mulford, who 'gently' warned the Indians that the US will not look too kindly upon the gas pipeline from Iran. This was followed by the message delivered by Secretary Rice who expressed her reservations over the possibility of a pipeline from Iran.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1340592

[Barkley]

7. Didn't Bush retaliate by selling Pakistan F-16s?

US defends Pakistan F-16 jet deal
The US has defended its decision to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, in the face of opposition from India.


A spokesman for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he had expressed "great disappointment" on Friday about the decision to supply F-16s to Pakistan.

But India is contemplating a "very large" purchase of fighter planes, a state department official said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4384597.stm