Follow Us When President Trump told the Iranian negotiators in Vienna that if his terms were not accepted, he would proceed to obliterate the Iranian nuclear capability, neither he nor India imagined that his war would affect a mini India consisting of nine million Indian citizens in the Gulf. Nine million is not a small figure, considering that there are more than a dozen independent countries in the world with populations below nine million. In effect, the attacks launched by Iran against the GCC countries turned out to be a blow to the interests of the US, Israel and Iran.