Delhi’s eyes are anxiously peeled west at the moment as it wonders whether Taliban, hitherto seen as a terror group, is poised to topple the Afghan government India has so heavily supported and invested in. However, the shape of things to come a little further west are of greater moment as far as its strategic interests are concerned.
With President Donald Trump on his way out, a great deal hinges on whether the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), can be revived. The deal was signed when Joe Biden was vice-president, and he has signalled his intent to return to it. However, the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh soon after it became clear that Biden had beaten Trump in the US presidential election, appears intended to forestall such a revival that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dead set against.
Fakhrizadeh’s assassination came after the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani, considered the second most powerful man in Iran who oversaw its Syrian and other external operations, in a drone strike in Baghdad ordered by the Trump administration. Thus the Fakhrizadeh assassination, coming at the delicate moment of the troubled transition from Trump to Biden administrations, could elicit an Iranian reaction which would draw in the US, effectively scotching a revival of JCPOA.
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