India taken a right stand vienna

India has rightly defended the IAEA censure of Iranian nuclear programme by voting against Iran in Vienna. It is India’s consistent approach as it had also voted against Iranian nucleat programme in 2005 and 2006. At that time India had faced opposition from Left Parties as they were supporting the UPA government from outside at that time. Iran has been stealthily building nuclear weapons from the help of Pakistan and China. India is against the nuclear proliferation and a forceful advocate of disarmament in the world for establishing peace, though it is not signatory to the NPT as long as it is discriminatory. Iran has been censured by 25-3 votes at the IAEA of the 35 Governors. Pakistan, Malaysia and Brazil have abstained themselves. All the six world powers- US, France, Britain, Germany, Pakistan and China- have endorsed the IAEA censure of Iran and India has gone with them. India can not live in isolation and it is its sovereign decision in the changed world scenario. It has not kowtowed the US line. It only sees its own interset. At present, the world is unipolar and the US is the sole super power after the end of the cold war. India still has independent foreign policy as it had during the time when the world was divided between two blocs-one led by the former Soviet Union and the other by the US. At that time India was one of the chief advocates and founders of non-aligned movement and it still pursues that policy and takes its own independent policy. In the changed world scenario being the emerging global power, India can not live in isolation and to safeguard its own interest it acts to suit the situation. Iran is also a sovereign country and it has right to have enriched uranium but at the same time it has to meet IAEA obligations which it has flouted by taking help stealthily from Pakistan and China in building nuclear weapons. IAEA should also have asked one of the big world powers China and Pakistan that why are indulging in proliferation of nuclear weapons. India has no option but to go with IAEA cesure resolution against Iran. India does what needs to be done in the given situation. India is also against acquisition of nuclear weapons but it must possess them through fair means without violating the IAEA norms. Iran is an old friend of India but on the issue under question it has taken the right stand.