Israel was a factor in the Cogress-led Indian government`s decision to vote against Iran in the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency`s Board of Governors on September 24, 2005. ”Israel pressured India not to vote for Iran,” the leading English daily `Asian Age` said here today, quoting Stephen Philip Cohen, a US analyst and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He also alluded to the opposition from the US Congress, which is still to approve a civilian nuclear energy cooperation with India, and New Delhi`s need to balance its relations with countries in the region to explain New Delhi`s response to the vote on the Iran nuclear issue. Noting that a lot depended on India`s separation of her civilian and military nuclear facilities, the US analyst said New Delhi ought to ”size up its military program.” ”It is a legitimate question to ask whether India has a huge weapons ambition and what those ambitions are,” he said, and woundered cryptically, ”Why was the Congress in a hurry to push the nuclear deal? Was it because of reserves or to overcome a psychological hurdle?”