Iran's proactive nuclear diplomacy has found merit in exposing the US hypocrisy on nuclear issues, but unfortunately only to exploit the loopholes existing in the US-led system for its own eventual nuclear ambitions. India has followed a similar course in its tryst with the global order of "nuclear apartheid" - shifting from "atoms for peace" to "weapons of peace" and eventually winning some extra-regime warm embrace for its "responsible" nuclear behaviour. This "peaceful" route to weaponisation is rendered attractive by the self-contradictions of the US-led global nuclear regime.

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