This is not my recommendation. It was suggested by Shashi Tharoor (former UN Under-Secretary General) to Fareed Zakaria on June 22, 2008. I just happen to agree with it. Tharoor was Zakaria’s guest on his newly minted TV show “Fareed Zakaria-GPS” on CNN. The other two guests were Christiane Amanpour (chief international correspondent for CNN) and Walter Russell Mead (Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for US foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations).
Think about it!
It is not such an outlandish idea after all. India has the second largest Shia Muslim population in the world, after Iran and also the second largest Muslim population in the world, after Indonesia. Iran and India have had long and traditional relations for over a millennium. India is the only country that Iran would probably trust. Instead you have America (a traditional tormentor of Iran), pushing Briton and Russia (both former invaders) in their face. Is this the way to negotiate an agreement with an adversary? When nothing worked, they invited China (a stranger to Iran) for a joint blind date. Can there be something even more ridiculous than that?
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