Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said March 26 that India intends to go ahead with a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline from Iran via Pakistan [2] despite objections from the US. "Talks on this pipeline are going on," Mukherjee said in an interview with the NDTV news network. "When I was in Iran, I had categorically mentioned that we are interested in having this pipeline." He added: "Now negotiations are going on about the prices." (AFP [3], March 26)
As we have noted [4], the recent US-India nuclear technology deal [5] was nearly an explicit bribe [6] to induce India to drop the Iran pipeline plan.
See our last posts on India [7], Iran [8] and the Eurasian pipeline wars [9].
