India's Singh Fumbles in Tehran

India's Singh Fumbles in Tehran

Nobody was surprised at Iran’s attempt to use this week’s Nonaligned Summit in Tehran to garner legitimacy for a regime unpopular at home and increasingly isolated abroad. More questionable was the decision by international leaders to play along.

Needless to say, the sight of Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe gracing a gathering of despots and dictators–a “Club for Tyrants” to borrow Max Fisher’s evocative phrase–would scarcely have fulfilled Tehran’s purpose. But the presence of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, newly elected President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was another matter.

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