Can Indians stop referring to Iran as part of the “Middle East”? The label is geographically lazy and strategically costly. Iran is not a distant West Asian country whose wars are someone else’s problem. It is India’s maritime neighbour. Its southern coast lies directly across the Arabian Sea from India’s western shore. The distance from Kandla Port in Gujarat to Chabahar is just 550 nautical miles. From Mumbai, it is 786. For centuries, this corridor was not a crisis zone – it was a trade route, binding two civilisations together across the sea. The war between Iran and the Israel-US…
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