Former US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill says India would prefer a nuclear Iran rather than supporting a US military attack on Iran.
Blackwill claimed that he does not think India wants a nuclear Iran but that “if it faces a binary choice of either that or an American military attack on Iran it would choose to try to deal with a nuclear Iran, without the attack.”
22 April 2008: Press TV
Former US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill says India would prefer a nuclear Iran rather than supporting a US military attack on Iran.
Blackwill claimed that he does not think India wants a nuclear Iran but that “if it faces a binary choice of either that or an American military attack on Iran it would choose to try to deal with a nuclear Iran, without the attack.”
"But that is not the view that is now dominant in Washington," said the counselor with the US Council on Foreign Relations in his address to a forum of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in New Delhi on Sunday.
Blackwill stressed that Iran is potentially a divisive issue in the Indo-US relations in the second half of 2009 if the next US administration decides to step up pressure on Tehran over its nuclear energy program, India's The Hindu newspaper reported.
The Islamic Republic maintains that its nuclear activates are solely aimed at peaceful purposes.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors have also found no single evidence to indicate that Iran is trying to develop a military nuclear program.
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