External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday addressed India allowing the docking of Iranian navy ship IRIS Lavan in Kochi, telling Parliament that the decision was taken on humanitarian grounds, and was the correct thing to do. In his statement on the situation in the Middle East, delivered to both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha,…
India said it permitted an Iranian naval vessel IRIS Lavan to dock at one of its ports just days before a frigate from the Persian Gulf nation was sunk by a United States submarine. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said allowing the Iranian ship to dock when it was facing hurdles “was the humane thing…
India has allowed an Iranian warship to anchor off the southern port of Kochi following Tehran’s appeal and the ship’s 183-member crew has been accommodated in naval facilities. Government officials said on Friday that this incident occurred two days after a US submarine targeted and sank an Iranian frigate with a torpedo off the coast…
Government sources told ANI that a few days before the IRIS Dena incident off the coast of Sri Lanka, Iran had approached India with a request to accommodate the Iranian ship IRIS Lavan, which was also in the area for the International Fleet Review. Iranian ship IRIS Lavan is docked at Kochi after India heeded…
