‘Approached from a point of humanity,’ Jaishankar on why India let Iran warship dock in Kochi
The Hindu
Jaishankar explains India's humanitarian decision to let an Iranian warship dock in Kochi amid rising tensions in the Indian Ocean.
India allowed an Iranian warship to dock as a ‘humanitarian gesture’, Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar said on Saturday (March 7, 2026), after the U.S. sank another Iranian Navy vessel off neighbouring Sri Lanka.
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In his first remarks on the U.S. sinking another Iranian Navy vessel in the Indian Ocean, Mr. Jaishankar said that India allowed it to dock in Kochi as it approached it “from a point of humanity”.
On Wednesday (March 4, 2026), a U.S. submarine torpedoed the Iranian warship IRIS Dena, which sank off the coast of Sri Lanka, killing 83 people. This brought the West Asian conflict closer to India. The Indian government faced scathing criticism for its “silence” over the attack.
Another Iranian warship, IRIS Lavan, docked at Kochi on Wednesday (March 4, 2026), after an urgent request from Tehran, Indian government sources said. Both fleets were leaving from an International Fleet Review in Visakhapatnam.
“When the [Iranian] ships had set out, and when they came here, the situation was totally different,” Mr. Jaishankar said at the annual Raisina Dialogue event. IRIS Lavan and two other ships “were coming in for a fleet review and then they got, in a way, caught on the wrong side of the events,” he said.
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