• Let me get this right. You are suggesting that the American targeted you along with Jack Straw and Abdullah Abdullah. That only happened from April 5...until that day you were supporting the nuclear deal.

I was.

• So why should they be targeting you? They should have been supporting you.

If you read the Volcker report and find out when my name was added. February 3, 2005, House committee, my name is not there. Then on the 9th my name appears. In the final report it appears. Why? Because my disquiet began from the time this shift took place in Condoleezza Rice. I read them very carefully, and I’d spoken to Condoleezza Rice, I’d spoken to the Congress president and the President of the US, and I said that nothing should be changed. The bottomline is that the deal is about energy, it is not about non-proliferation. The Americans have now dropped reciprocity and come to non-proliferation, to permanent safeguards.

• What has that got to do with Volcker and Pathak and Natwar Singh?

Because Mr Volcker was the Federal Reserve chairman, he was on two UN committees, he has left out all the American companies who made money... He’s put in the name of (George) Galloway, Soekarnoputri. All the names are there.

• So the whole thing is a conspiracy?

It is.

• You wrote to Mrs Gandhi in July (2006). Did you specifically write on foreign policy?

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