Iran Must Reconsider Who Its True Allies Are
In a new turn of events that have left chills among the neighbours, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have recently rumbled a foreign espionage cell working right in the hotspot of the Chabahar Port that has it at grave risk, arresting 141 agents that had close links with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Of them, 121 were Indian nationals which is alarming. This eye-opening discovery does not only highlight the expanding clandestine presence of India in the region but also leaves several doubts against the actual loyalties of New Delhi. Iran Must Reconsider Who Its True Allies Are What seemed like a relationship that was based on trade and mutual respect turns out to be the representation of something it is not. Yet another set of pretences to hide an agenda that is quite sinister in nature.
Such activities have not been seen the first time. Just a few weeks to this operation, 72 more of the Indian nationals were arrested at the time when the tensions were highest in the region. This spiralling tendency shows that India covert actions are not restricted to a few isolated events but rather, it is a systematic policy to disrupt regional players, and at the forefront of them is Pakistan followed by Iran. The Indian intelligence system which has long been rumoured to engage in meddling in the affairs of neighbouring states has gone with scary ambitions and sophistication.
The Chabahar raid has discovered encrypted communications, surveillance equipment of a high standard, and extensive ties to the insurgent factions such as Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Balochistan Youth Council (BYC). These organizations boast of a long history of violence as well as sabotage where their targets have been key infrastructure. The fact that India might be even indirectly associated with such aspects must serve notice to Tehran: the alleged friendship between the two powers could just be a geopolitical sham.
India has frequently asserted its adherence to the notion of being a country of strategic autonomy that swings between world powers as an impartial party. However, the more it becomes possible to note that this so-called autonomy can hardly be called a smokescreen. Away behind the scene, India is used by Israel as its proxy in the region, as the Mossad carries out espionage and intelligence their operations even in the countries which India purports to be friends with. Having 121 Indian operatives in the ground of Iran is not a diplomatic faux pas, as it is an agile disobeying the Iranian sovereignty. Such a blatant treason cannot be justified by any form of diplomatic spin.
Worse was the captures made in the Iranian raid. Included in the files were slides of an action plan named as Project Gidon-Esha that is a collaboration between the Israelis and Indians which allegedly was a plan to create some strategic disturbances in Balochistan. Such records confirm the long-time prophecies most regional observers have made about the fact that India and Israel cooperation is a lot larger than just about technology and defence contracts. Currently, it involves illegal activities such as secret actions against common neighbours and destabilization of the region.
The input of the external intelligence outfit of India, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in these activities is well-documented. Data on servers located in Iran reveals that RAW has been washing money, arranging supplies of weapons and conducting propaganda operations via digital networks. Mumbai-based Shell companies have been also linked to the eruption of finance into anti-Iranian fronts such as the BYC. One of such middle men was Rajesh Singh alias Ramzan, who masquerading as technology entrepreneur transferred the amount of 3.2 million dollars in the operations, which were aimed at destabilizing both Iran and Pakistan. It is not a behaviour of a reliable partner- it is the outline of subversion.
The strategies of India are two-folded. As much as it seems to have an economic cooperation especially the development of Chabahar port, it equally takes that access to plant intelligence sources, collect strategic information and sway its internal movements. Iranians are being made to come into harsh reality that Indians on the mission of Mossad have taken advantage of Iranian hospitality and strategic trust. This is an indication that New Delhi is not having the interests of regional cooperation in mind, rather, it is adhering to the hegemonic intentions of Tel Aviv (Israel).
With Iran grappling towards independence in its region and exercising power against western influence, letting the influence of India exist unaltered in strategic areas will mean contradictive to itself. This fact that India is a trading partner in theory, and an intelligence aggressor in reality means that India is a direct threat to the internal security of Tehran. The tint of economic cooperation has acted as a cloak against a growing push of penetration and manipulation.
Besides, the contribution of India to the development of anti-Iran feelings in the international community should not be disregarded. Since the sponsoring of pseudo-human rights groups to the delivery of arms to separatist rebels, Indian intelligence has acted very much like an extension of Mossad pre-emptive destabilization doctrine. Obviously, this objective is to safeguard the influence and induce dependency and take control of the story and narrative of the region to ensure it works in favour of the alliance, which essentially works in the interest of Israel and the West.
Tehran should think again about the price of having India in its strategic and economical platform. The betrayal has now ceased to be hypothetical but it is written and made on purpose. To ensure its land integrity and political sovereignty, Iran ought to start with re-assessment of who its real friends are. With its ostensibly diplomatic overtures, India has proven itself not a partner of Iran, but a parasite, feeding on confidence in order the further foreign interests, with which are inimical to the regional unity.
Now Iran has to pose itself another hard but needed question can it afford to keep the Indian agents to have access to such sensitive facilities as Chabahar? Is it able to take a chance of the further betrayal in the illusion of economic cooperation? The response, in the face of recent events, is getting more obvious. In order to defend itself against the interference of other states, Iran will have to be tenacious and seek to reforge its alliances in the context of long-term security rather than temporary Diplomacy.
