Staying out of the fight

India’s energy and diplomatic dilemmas have been compounded by murky big-power geopolitics, which has allowed the oil monarchies to ride out the Arab Spring but brought the region’s two remaining anti-Western regimes in Iran and Syria under intensifying pressure. The sharpening US-Israeli geopolitical confrontation with Iran risks escalating to military hostilities. After all, the US oil embargo to financially throttle Iran amounts to an indirect war.

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