By MK Bhadrakumar
''Does the US expect a quid pro quo from India? That’s the big question as the Strategic Dialogue convenes. The US diplomacy is famous for making linkages.
Look at the funny side, though: US imposes sanctions against a sovereign country and then proceeds to threaten other sovereign countries with downstream sanctions unless they fell in line and heeded the spirit of the original sanctions regime — and then lo and behold it unilaterally decides to issue ‘waivers’ — in instalments.
Is this foreign policy befitting a superpower even in a multipolar world? To my mind, it is belittling that the US resorts to anti-Iranian rhetoric by using India. Why not show the courage to stand up, look Iran straight in the eye and say a few unpleasant things instead of taking potshots?''
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