India and Iran's strategic relationship has weakened, and Iran, a NPT signatory, is aggrieved by the double standards that are apply to it and to India under the recent US–India nuclear deal.
The East-West Institute, in cooperation with BASIC, CNS, NGOCDPS, the Global Security Institute, and other organizations, will host a conference that will include UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Henry Kissinger, Hans Blix and other international experts.
On October 1, 2008 the US Congress passed the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. The long anticipated agreement would allow US companies to trade nuclear technology, information, and material to India. It has faced several hurdles, including first passing the US Congress in 2006, the Indian Parliament in July, the IAEA Board of Governors in August, and the Nuclear Suppliers Group in September. Controversy surrounds the agreement because, India is not an established member of the nonproliferation regime and it detonated nuclear devices in 1998.
Whether the Russian operation against Georgia was premeditated or not, the leadership has used it effectively to strengthen nationalistic support within the country, and to challenge the view domestically and internationally of expanding, unbridled US dominance.
There is pressure on the US and NATO to remove nuclear weapons from Europe and an opportunity for change at the forthcoming Alliance summit, where plans are afoot to open the Strategic Concept for rev
The NSG has granted India a waiver; however, members believed an unconditional waiver would undermine the non-proliferation regime and criticized the US position.