What about Russia arming our other adversary to the teeth all these years? After all, Pak military is not really a threat for us, but China is. And guess where China gets all their technology from? From combat aircrafts to ships to submarines to jet engines to you name it.
I'm pretty sure that Iranians have less to worry about India purchasing Israeli weapons, than India has to worry about Russian technology and weapons in Chinese hands. India is not going to use any of its weapons against Iran - but China for sure will use the Russian weapons against India, should a war arise.
If India and Russia could be strategic partners over all these decades, despite them arming China, I don't see why India and Iran can't be friends, despite our purchase of weapons and tech from Israel.
Reasons why India couldn't do $hit against Russia all these years when they armed the Dragon-
-Such ties existed for a long time, even b4 Indo-Soviet ties
-India tooo weak and poor to tell the mighty Soviets to do anything
-Soviets only source (reliable) of weapons to India not to mention affordable, so no real choice but to buy Russian
-After the fall, Russians too weak and poor and so every buyer was welcome
-After the fall, India still too weak and poor to influence the Russians
Not to mention India was still a pariah in the West. They too armed Pakistan. So Russia was the only logical choice. We needed their veto on a variety of issues. Also there is no strategic relationship after the fall, only buyer-seller. You may try to make the case about Gorkshov and Akula..............don't even think about it- they were old, rusting junk that Ruskies were happy to get of their chest. Earlier we could threaten to stop future purchases from Russia if they sold to Pakistan. But today when we are already rejecting most of their stuff we have no influence over them. Also China isn't/wasn't considered an enemy of the same degree as Pakistan. We have relatively normal relationship with them. Russia selling Pakistan any war-critical technology is certain to set back our relationship by a great margin.
Today we can choose between Russia/China and the West. Who do you think is better for us?
We'll remain NA'ed because there is really no need to choose right now, but future?
Now to Iran-Israel-India, that was really just an attempt to troll haman10 and Indian members
but now that I have to write such long posts to defend every point
I give up
Long Live India-Iran friendship.