US threatens India with sanctions

[joluoto]

Chabahar Port: US says sanctions possible after India-Iran port deal​

India has never taken the US sanctions on Iran very seriously. From an Indian perspective Iran is a strategic partner against Pakistan, and one of India's three important partnerships (US, Russia and Iran). India needs a trade route to Central Asia that does not go through Pakistan, so again from an Indian perspective a port deal in Iran sounds lucrative. For the US this brings another challenge. India is a important strategic partner against the PRC, but now the US might have to impose sanctions on India in response to this deal. Because if they don't, others will see it as a sign business with Iran can go unpunished.

 

[phoenix2020]

This is so dumb.

Our continued blind support for Pakistan - a military theocracy that is the world’s leading proliferator of terrorism and nuclear weapons technology - is stupid. All it’s done for the last century is drive the world’s most populous democracy toward the USSR / Russia out of necessity when instead we ought to be fast friends.

This by the way is one of the few things Democratic admins have gotten completely wrong while the Republican ones have done right. Clinton damaged our relationship which Bush then mended. Then Obama damaged it again, then Trump healed it. Then one of the first things Biden’s state dept did was start a diplomatic kerfuffle with India.

We need to be isolating Pakistan rather than selling them fighter planes, and developing a deep trust based alliance with India.

And in turn, India should be doing far more on the world stage to broker peace. After all, consider this: India has friendly relations with Iran AND Israel. They have friendly relations with Russia AND Ukraine. They could be building on this in a way neither the US, China, Russia nor the EU could because no one else on this planet had managed such levels of neutrality.

 

[multivita-man]

This is so dumb.

Our continued blind support for Pakistan - a military theocracy that is the world’s leading proliferator of terrorism and nuclear weapons technology - is stupid. All it’s done for the last century is drive the world’s most populous democracy toward the USSR / Russia out of necessity when instead we ought to be fast friends.

This by the way is one of the few things Democratic admins have gotten completely wrong while the Republican ones have done right. Clinton damaged our relationship which Bush then mended. Then Obama damaged it again, then Trump healed it. Then one of the first things Biden’s state dept did was start a diplomatic kerfuffle with India.

We need to be isolating Pakistan rather than selling them fighter planes, and developing a deep trust based alliance with India.

And in turn, India should be doing far more on the world stage to broker peace. After all, consider this: India has friendly relations with Iran AND Israel. They have friendly relations with Russia AND Ukraine. They could be building on this in a way neither the US, China, Russia nor the EU could because no one else on this planet had managed such levels of neutrality.

I'm reading this more as a possible way to discourage and isolate Iran than support for Pakistan. India's probably more important to the US than Pakistan, and now that we've abandoned the Afghanistan project, they're probably even less important from a strategic standpoint, which is not to say they're completely irrelevant, but less relevant than they were in 2005.

 

[phoenix2020]

I'm reading this more as a possible way to discourage and isolate Iran than support for Pakistan. India's probably more important to the US than Pakistan, and now that we've abandoned the Afghanistan project, they're probably even less important from a strategic standpoint, which is not to say they're completely irrelevant, but less relevant than they were in 2005.

While true, this is a pattern of ours that goes back much further than our adventures in Afghanistan. We have been propping up Pakistan and isolating India since the 1960s. Before 9/11, before Afghanistan, before their joint nuclear tests, before Iran’s revolution and so on. It’s a pattern that has gone on for the better part of a century without much rhyme nor reason.

 

[eman623]

Why does India need a trade route to central Asia?

 

[nvflash]

The friend of my enemy is not my enemy.

Sections are a form of warfare, not to be used short of a complete breakdown in diplomacy.

So is the Biden administration admitting its ineptitude in diplomacy?

Reach back in your file and find John Kerry, he was a fine SoS, and had Trump to scrapped the Iran deal he worked to help forge we'd still have some leverage over Iran short of warfare.

So now the threaten India for doing what it needs to do to keep trade and wealth flowing, pushing them right into the hands of Russia.

I think if it takes the advice and consent of the Senate to get us in a treaty, then it should take that to get us out of one, not just the next president doesn't like it.

I voted for Trump twice, but diplomatically this was Trumps most bone headed move and now we all have to reap what he sew.

 

[Juks]

Chabahar Port: US says sanctions possible after India-Iran port deal​

India has never taken the US sanctions on Iran very seriously. From an Indian perspective Iran is a strategic partner against Pakistan, and one of India's three important partnerships (US, Russia and Iran). India needs a trade route to Central Asia that does not go through Pakistan, so again from an Indian perspective a port deal in Iran sounds lucrative. For the US this brings another challenge. India is a important strategic partner against the PRC, but now the US might have to impose sanctions on India in response to this deal. Because if they don't, others will see it as a sign business with Iran can go unpunished.

In what way? I would think United Arab Emirates would be among the three most important as would EU as a whole (considering trade balance)