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Israel and India: Iran's needless hullabaloo

Following the launch of Israeli spy satellite TECSAR from Indian facilities, the publicly-aired criticism of India's ties with 'the Zionist state' by Iranian government officials should have produced outcries of gratuitous interference. However, no one has asked why Iran chose to go to the media with its unhappiness instead of resorting to the standard diplomatic practice of issuing a demarche to the Indian ambassador in Tehran. Nobody has challenged Iran's presumed right to dish out veiled warnings to India over its foreign policy preferences.12:00 PM on February 18