New Delhi, March 30 -- With the war between the Israel-US and Iran having entered the second month and concerns over energy supply and cost rising globally, leading US Political Scientist and renowned author Robert Pape has said that shortages resulting from a prolonged conflict will "affect India rather dramatically" as also many other countries in the Global South and that New Delhi is slowly "bandwagoning" with Tehran to secure its energy interests.

In an interview with ANI also said there is a 70 per cent chance that the US would launch a ground invasion on Iran.

He said that as the price of oil goes up and there will be growing pressure on supply chains, the price of food will go up, and while richer countries will pay those prices...