I have no idea if this is true, but it’s worth looking into. In a piece dedicated to explaining why India joined the U.S. and the EU3 in referring Iran to the Security Council for breaching its agreement to curtail the development of nukes, the Calcutta Telegraph states:
Top-ranking Americans have told equally top-ranking Indians in recent weeks that the US has plans to invade Iran before Bush’s term ends. In 2002, a year before the US invaded Iraq, high-ranking Americans had similarly shared their definitive vision of a post-Saddam Iraq, making it clear that they would change the regime in Baghdad.
On the last day of his stay in New York this month, Singh made public his fears for the safety of nearly four million Indians in the Gulf in the event of diplomacy failing to persuade Iran away from a confrontation with the US and others on the nuclear issue.
Hmmm. How reliable a source is the Calcutta Telegraph?
The Dish 