Delhi’s attempt to play the Shia card to moderate the Iranian disquiet over our ‘forever honeymoon’ with the Israel-UAE-Bahrain axis failed to impress Tehran. It was a clumsy attempt but was, arguably, the best card Delhi held potentially. The best alternative would have been to send an all-party delegation to represent India at the funeral …
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Rare consensus-making effort. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Randhir Jaiswal addresses Inter- Ministerial Briefing on Recent Developments in West Asia, in New Delhi. Make no mistake, Modi Government is squarely blaming the US for the attack on ships in the Strait of Hormuz killing seven Indian sailors. Protests have been lodged with the US charge d’affaires …
A massive Iranian retaliatory strike on Dimona, Israel’s “nuclear city,” following latter’s attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant, caused large-scale destruction and casualties, Demona, March 22, 2026 The salience of the two readouts of the phone call on Saturday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian is that the bilateral relationship …
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Chabahar Port, Iran, File Photo God giveth and God taketh away, the Bible says. The US State Department announcement to reimpose sanctions on India’s Chabahar Port project in Iran fits into the Biblical maxim, although from a theological viewpoint, Job might have uttered those words at a moment of great distress having suffered devastating losses, …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) and Iran’s president late Ibrahim Raisi at the BRICS Summit, Johannesburg, August 18, 2023 TEHRAN — There is enormous appreciation among Iranian intellectuals, diplomats and politicians regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stellar support for their country’s membership of the BRICS grouping. Modi played a key role to navigate Iran’s …
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Petrochemical complexes in Asaluyeh, Iran (File photo) The PTI news agency has quoted ‘sources’ in New Delhi to the effect that the Farzad-B gas field project in Iran is slipping out of India’s hands. The curtain seems to have come down on the negotiations between the ONGC Videsh and Iran’s National Iranian Oil Company. The …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) at New York on Sept 26, 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his 6-day long visit to the US with a bang — a stunning stage appearance with President Trump at the Howdy Modi in Houston last Sunday. But on Thursday, he ended up …
(Iran’s Chabahar Port) India has done well to put in place the nuts and bolts of a payment mechanism for its trade and investment transactions with Iran against the backdrop of the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) in May last year followed by the imposition …
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