Seyed Mehdi Nabizadeh, Iran’s ambassador to India, has been keeping a very busy schedule, what with Washington, Tel Aviv and other western capitals issuing tough statements against Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. These have raised the spectre of a possible military confrontation in the Persian Gulf. The conflict between Iran and the US is linked to the reports of the director-general (D-G) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which were simultaneously sent to the agency’s board of governors and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Iran contends that the UNSC is not a technical body which can take decisions on matters nuclear.