Huh. Most people aren't being hostile. I'm pleasantly surprised.
@Kaptaan does this count as a "single brick" that has been laid down that you said wouldn't happen?
Look I am going to make a effort to reply to you on the premise that you really are Iranian and not some Indian fanboy hiding behind the Iranian flags. What do I think it is.
Groundhog Day v999th. And it is not even a brick. But a
piece of broken brick.
Why am I so
sceptical? Simple. We heard first heard about this decades ago. Gwadar then was few mud huts. Chah Bahar by comparison
already was fully developed town. I had gotten to know about Chah Bahar long before the internet age made the world available at your fingertips. Back in 1978 I was in sixth form, high school doing three A-Levels. Our sixth form library was well stocked and we would get Scientific American, National Geographic, British Geographical, Readers Digest as well as the broadsheet papers readily available. Being a avid reader and having more than passing interest in geography I would read National Geoghraphic page to page with it's glorious pictures, maps and diagrams.
One article I read was about massive project launched by Shah to bring Sistan Balochistan within the mainstream Iran as it was backward and disconnected. It talked about massive road projects, desert being stabilized by using Israeli technology that entailed spraying the sand with crude petrolueum to bind the soil and then plant sapling to hold the soil together. British companies were heavily involved in road construction. Chah Bahar was mentioned as being the anchor of the whole development project. From the pictures you could see Chah Bahar was developing as a modern town. As a sides my best friend Gholam was half Iranian. I still remember joing that he was the only "O" Gholam I knew as rest were "U" Ghulams. His father was Shia from Rawalpindi and had settled in Iran after he got married to a Iranian women. He had been working as a guard at the British Embassy in Tehran a job he had got as he had been a ex-servicemen from the Raj. The family had moved to UK.
Four decades later Chah Bahar is still Chah Bahar. Along the way Indian's have come along every now and then to do their "Bollywood" dance. Nothing much has changed. You will see more Bollywood photoshoots in Chah Bahar. Nothing substantive other than few bricks is going to happen.
Reason? As I mentioned at the outset is simple. For the Indian "Chah"
dream would entail massive structural changes in trading order and economic linkages. This would entail bolting together a Russian-Central Asian-Afghan-Chah Bahar economic corridor. The main beneficiaries of this would be Russia and Iran. There is no way,
no way I can see American allowing this to happen. Yes, Indians can go ahead but if they invest sufficient amounts to get their "Chah dream" it would upset Washington. So the question is will India poke USA in the face to get "Chah dream" and risk
losing America as a strategic ally. Not a fcukin chance. And if you want some pointers please look at how India dumped Iran in the sanction vote at UN.
That is why India is acting like a schizoid. Chah dream or Americans. Americans or Chah dream. Chah Drream or Americans. It's like a love triangle with one
too many in the bed. And you know who Miss India is going to through
out of the bed.
Meantime let us all again start chanting "Chah, Chah, Chah, Chah, Chah ......
Ps. The only thing it does is the sick sectarian boys in Pakistan get crap to get excited about and Indian fanboys to go jumping around chanting.
come on man, surely it hasn't been that long.
but in all seriousness, I think the renewed investments in Iran are encouraging. I think Iran should do more to try and get China more interested in Chabahar. It's annoying that Iran is missing out on investment because of politics of other countries. Many Pakistanis and Indians talk about Chabahar in the frame of their own rivalry, whereas Iran just wants them to put their differences aside for this one issue. It is our port, after all. Maybe that's selfish of us, but there you go.
