New Delhi will try its best to maintain its current ties with Tehran without offending the US.
New Delhi’s refineries are uniquely suited to process Iranian crude and Tehran can no longer play the ‘oh but I have other suitors waiting’ game.
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Given our problems with China — the border and Pakistan — it is important for us to work with coalitions which will check Chinese power.
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New Delhi's bid to counter the One Belt One Road by creating transportation linkages through the Iranian ports is at stake.
It is in Tokyo's interest in freeing New Delhi so that it can counter Beijing.
Under this agreement, New Delhi is legally committed to unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing to Tokyo.
Both countries need to work jointly and emerge as a possible alternative to China.
Since Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is considering another snap election some time in January 2017, he would tread cautiously.
