India’s international minister will make a two-day journey to Iran beginning Sunday, following Western airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the Tehran-backed group’s assaults on ships within the Pink Sea.
S. Jaishankar’s go to additionally comes a month after a drone assault on a ship close to Indian waters that america blamed on Iran.
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India’s international minister will make a two-day journey to Iran beginning Sunday, following Western airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the Tehran-backed group’s assaults on ships within the Pink Sea.
S. Jaishankar’s go to additionally comes a month after a drone assault on a ship close to Indian waters that america blamed on Iran.
A authorities assertion issued on Saturday stated Jaishankar would meet his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, to debate “bilateral, regional and world points”, with out giving additional particulars.
The Houthis have carried out dozens of drone and missile assaults on the important thing worldwide route by way of the Pink Sea because the begin of Israel’s battle in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’ assault on Israel on October 7. .
Many ships have been diverted from the Pink Sea attributable to drone and missile assaults carried out by Houthi rebels in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
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India has considerably stepped up its personal maritime patrols within the Arabian Sea to “keep a deterrent presence” following the sequence of assaults on ships.
In December, a drone strike hit the oil tanker MV Chem Pluto 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) off the coast of India, which america blamed on Iran (which Tehran claims is “ineffective”).
Earlier this month, the Indian navy stated it had rescued 21 crew members from a ship within the Arabian Sea after a kidnapping misery name.
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Jaishankar stated on Thursday that he had spoken to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken about “maritime safety challenges, particularly (in) the Pink Sea area.”
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