India slams Iran on its Supreme Leader’s comment
New Delhi : India strongly objected on the comment made by the Supreme leader of Iran
Ali Khamenei regarding the ‘Indian Muslims’ recently.
The Ministry of External Affairs released a statement and condemned such unfriendly comment without any base.
In its statement, the MEA said, “We strongly deplore the comments made regarding minorities in India by the Supreme Leader of Iran. These are misinformed and unacceptable. Countries commenting on
minorities are advised to look at their own record before making any observations about others.”
Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei
made a comment on Indian muslims while showing his solidarity with muslims of Gaza
& Myanmar. In a comment made on social media platform X, Ali Khamenei
wrote: “The enemies of Islam have always tried to make us indifferent with
regard to our shared identity as an Islamic Ummah. We cannot consider ourselves
to be Muslims if we are oblivious to the suffering that a Muslim is enduring in
Myanmar, Gaza, India, or any other place.”
India and Iran signed a friendship
treaty on 15 March 1950. The visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to
Iran and the signing of the Tehran Declaration in April 2001, followed by the
visit of President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami and the signing of New Delhi
Declaration in 2003 enhanced the India-Iran cooperation. The two documents
identified areas of cooperation and set the strategic vision for India-Iran
partnership.
The bilateral relations were further
boosted by the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran in May 2016.
During the visit, a joint statement titled “Civilizational Connect,
Contemporary Context” was released, and 12 MOUs/Agreements were signed between
India and Iran. The Trilateral Agreement on Trade, Transport and Transit
between India, Iran and Afghanistan was also signed during the visit.
President Rouhani visited India in
February 2018, during which a joint statement titled “Towards Prosperity
Through Greater Connectivity” was issued. The two sides signed 13
MOUs/Agreements during the visit, prominent among them being the contract for
interim operations of Chabahar port and the MoU on Cooperation in the Field of
Health and Medicine.
