ABSTRACT
Finding itself between a rock and a hard place, the Indian government decided to vote against Iran at a crucial board meeting of the IAEA on 24 September 2005. It voiced its disagreement with the text of the resolution that was put forward by the US and the EU at the meeting, that Iran had become a threat to international security, and made it clear that it had voted for the resolution only after it was assured that the issue would not be taken before the Security Council at least until further discussions between Iran and the IAEA had taken place and Iran’s nuclear intentions had been more fully explored. But in India the bulk of the intelligentsia saw this as no more than a fig leaf for surrender to an imperial power.
