Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday demanded that the United States government recall its Ambassador to India, David C Mulford, for his remarks linking Iran with Indo-US nuclear deal.
"The Indian government should immediately press for Mulford's recall," she told reporters in Chennai.
"It is a mistake on the part of India to have voted against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting. At least now we should rectify the mistake. I strongly condemn the Centre's action of voting against Iran just to satisfy the US," she said.
The Left parties have already asked the government to seek Mulford's recall for his remarks in an interview to PTI that the Indo-US nuclear deal, signed on July 18, last year, could 'die' in the US Congress if New Delhi did not oppose Iran's nuclear programme.