INDO-IRAN RELATIONS TOWARDS BETTER UNDERSTANDING: A STUDY OF KEY AREAS OF COOPERATION

ABSTRACT

The current meaningful push in India’s relations with Iran is to a great extent as old as the end of the Cold War. With the fall of Communism and its inevitable expulsion in Soviet Union, the Cold War vision of a bipolar challenge between the first and the subsequent world became excess after 1991. Meanwhile, it is to say that it was the era of globalization which opened the economic door for capitalist countries once again. Therefore, the connected thought of a neutral Third World was additionally exhausted of all significance. The states, unshackled from the unbending nature of philosophical divisions, continued on to augment their benefits by shaping fluctuated and shapeless alliances. In the specific circumstance, India’s international strategy saw an inescapable reorientation: philosophy based commitment offered approach to revenue based relations. In West Asia, India turned out to be all the more clear-peered toward and forceful in seeking after its inclinations. In this time nations that had gotten deficient consideration during the long periods of the Cold War—Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia—became bases on which India’s new West Asia strategy came to the economic diplomacy with a new conceptual framework as non-alignment policy founded by Nehru. The present paper makes a review of key areas of co-operation between India and Iran after the end of Soviet Union.

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