101 Ways to pressure India, the way of Pseudo pressure

So India is going on ahead and signing the Tehran pipe deal, which India definatley needs. We are in dire need of energy resources, that is no secret. US obviously does not want India to have ties with Tehran, because that means money to Tehran, so this is what the US Energy secretary Bodman says:

""There have been conversations ... and if that is allowed to go forward, in our judgement, this will contribute to development of nuclear weapons,"

basically don't buy fuel from Tehran because we don't like them, you give them money, they will surely go do something bad with it.
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To me this is the most ludicrous statement of all times. What does that mean, should the world severe economic ties with any Muslim country that the US randomly suspects of developing any technology that may threaten US. Is every single penny that Tehran earns going to be spent on developing threats to the US? Are they totally sure that Tehran is really going to be a threat to the US, I mean where were the nukes in Iraq? Are they sure that the Tehran government does not want to use the money to actually make its people happy? It almost seems that the US is convinced that the world is intent on building nukes and blasting the heck out of each other. Well I guess they have a reason, after all they have been there, done that, and have had to live with the terrible guilt! I mean US is the only country in the world to actually have a history of using Nukes, not one but two!

Asking India, an age old friend of Tehran, to hamper its economic ties with Tehran (especially when its helping India out of a Ennergy ditch) is rather gutsy, especially given the history of US pumping money into the middle east for fuel and such.

What is the meaning of this paranoia? Has the American state lost its independence from the Church, or does America really believe that making middle eastern nations economically weak is going to stop the people there from reverting to terrorism? Isn't it possible for big brother to actively participate in the well being and economic prosperity of the middle eastern nations rather than weakening them? After all, they are doing it in Latin America, oh but I forgot, Latin America is mostly Christian!

BTW. Clarification: I am neither Christian, nor Muslim.