Twisting arms in India puts pipeline on hold.... when I read a story

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like this... I think of the disaster in Bhopal and how shrub decreed that who was it? "Dow" was not responsible for reparations to the Indian people who either survived close relatives or are severely disabled from the gas leak.

Then again, I think about what Enron did to India's electrical grid, their public money and the Indian people.... and then I say to myself, everything is normal in topsy turvy land....

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GH12Df03.html

Has India sacrificed at Washington's altar?
By Ramtanu Maitra

Shortly after his return from a state visit to Washington, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the Indian media that the United States had no role in the proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan. It was the umpteenth time this face-saving line had been ritually trotted out in New Delhi, despite evidence to the contrary.

Given the fractious US-Iran relationship, and both statements issued by US officials and the pussyfooting of the Manmohan government over the past six months about the future of the ambitious project, it is evident that unless the Iran-US bilateral relationship changes dramatically, the pipeline is a non-starter.

The participating countries in the proposed 2,600-kilometer, overland natural-gas pipeline began discussions in the early 1990s, but it has only been in recent meetings among officials from India, Iran and Pakistan that indications were given that the project could get underway in the near future, despite pricing disagreements.