Iran problem is causing consternation in the world. Iran will not give up its nuclear programme, which it says is for peaceful purposes like generating energy. The US and Israel do not subscribe to this view. Enrichment of uranium will help Iran in its covert nuclear weapons programme.

An intransigent Iran would go ahead with the weapons programme, infuriating the US and other allies. The US will go the whole hog to bridle Iran. Israel would only to be too willing to strike.

If and when the nuclear facilities of Iran are attacked, it would not sit idle. That it is being attacked by Zionist Israel and "anti-Islamic" US would propel its fundamentalist forces to launch a blitzkrieg. Terrorist and guerrilla warfare has no limitations.

Robert Blackville, former US Ambassador to India, has made it clear that the US would have no choice but to attack Iran. He has also acknowledged that there would be terrible repercussions.

The world is sitting on a tinderbox, not of fire, but of annihilatory nukes. When cultures , religions and faiths clash, these would be a free-for-all.

India has started trying out anti-nuke uniforms and masks for its soldiers. Apparently, Iran's intransigence has spread the panick button.


Islamist countries have been trying to develop nuclear weapons knowhow. According to reports quoting Western countries, several Islamist nations were engaged in clandestine programmes to obtain nuclear know-how.

They were helped by Pakistan's A Q M Khan. It is, therefore, clear that Pakistan has been, one way or other, helping proliferation of nukes know-how.

The US, which has always been bracketing India and Pakistan together in matters nuclear, did not pay enough heed to rogue elements taking advantage of the expertise they secured from countries like China. It was to browbeat India that China and the US and UK either provided direct help or allowed others to equip Pakistan in all spheres in an attempt to equate the two Asian countries,which have the same origin.

Now it is a thing of the past, with the US confirming that India has been a good boy, never indulging in clandestine proliferation.

Now India, which is home to the second largest Muslim population in the world, cannot take a stance antagonistic to Iran, for various reasons, including oil supply from it.

Even if India keeps off, once US strikes Iran, India will also have to bear the brunt one way or other.

The coming days are crucial for this part of the world, with Iran reticent to fall in line and the US keen on "disarming" it of nuclear weapons.