India’s Modi faces backlash over Israel trip days before Iran attacks
The Straits Times
India’s opposition groups said it gave tacit approval for subsequent air strikes in Iran. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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NEW DELHI – India’s opposition groups criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his Israel trip last week, saying it gave tacit approval for subsequent air strikes in Iran that have sparked a crisis in the region.
The main Indian National Congress said on Feb 28 that Mr Modi’s two-day visit to Israel was ill-timed and gave the perception of “partisan alignment and tacit endorsement” of Israel’s coordinated strikes with the US on Iran.
Congress party spokesman Jairam Ramesh said on March 1 that the Modi government’s response has been a “betrayal of India’s values, principles, concerns, and interests,” while another Congress leader, Ms Priyanka Gandhi, called the assassination of Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “despicable.”
The attacks on Iran also drew heavy criticism from the Communist Party of India on March 1.
With about 9 million Indians working in the Gulf region and India heavily reliant on oil imports, the widening Iran crisis creates fresh uncertainty for the economy.
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