US-Iran row: Why India has few choices except watching from the sidelines

Former ambassador to Iran, KC Singh told Business Standard the time for recalibration was past

Most Indian experts on Iran and the Gulf see India backed up in a corner in arguably the worst tension the region has seen in 30 years following the killing of one of Iran’s top military strategists and leader, Qasem Suleimani.

Experts caution that quick judgments – given that the situation is still evolving, with Iraqi Parliament resolving to expel all US forces from its soil and the US announcing it is ready to sanction Iraq – could be erroneous. But, they say, despite the optics of Foreign Minister S Jaishankar calling US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and publicly