IRNA - An India analyst of world affairs believes that despite the anti-Iran stances of both the US and the Zionist regime, India�s ties with Iran are improving simply because New Delhi is much concerned on its own interests.�


In an exclusive interview with IRNA here on Tuesday , the senior columnist Seema Guha said:�India�s ties with Iran are on track despite the fact that both Israel and the US are vehemently anti-Iran. Delhi�s plan to develop the Chabahar Port in Iran to do business with Afghanistan without entering Pakistan is a case in point. Ahead of the recent visit of the Israeli Prime Minister Nethanyahu to India, New Delhi government signed a $600 million deal with Iran for supply of locomotives and freight cars from India.�

�While signing the pact, the Indian Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, said that the locomotives could be used in the Chabahar-Zahedan railroad to accelerate development of the port, in line with India�s desire to connect to Central Asia and beyond to Europe,� she added.

Highlighting the isolation of the Zionist regime in the world community over its violation of the human rights in the occupied Palestine, the veteran journalist said: �Tel Aviv has few solid friends in the developing world, and the rapport with India, a country of over a billion people, is a feather in Israel�s cap.�

Elaborating on India�s foreign policy in the Middle East, the expert of the international affairs further noted that : �Foreign policy is not made by personal likes or dislikes, but pragmatic hardnosed considerations.'

'Despite convergence and personal good wills between Indian and Israeli Prime Ministers, there is a deep divergence between India and Israel. The hope of many Hindu hardliners' support for an India-US-Israel alliance against the Islamic world is belied by the hard reality. Luckily for India, the Prime Minister is not carried away by such sentiments.�

India voted with the rest of the international community in the UN against the US decision to declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

'Delhi has been a traditional supporter of the Palestinian cause. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India�s ties with Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and the rest of the PGCC nations have improved rapidly� she added.

�All Indian governments have also walked a tight rope in balancing ties with the Palestinians and the wider Persian Gulf region. Prime Minister Modi is no exception. He is scheduled to visit Ramallah next month.�