Iran President Pezeshkian to visit India for BRICS summit

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian is likely to visit India for the Brics summit next month, according to diplomatic sources. This would be the first official visit by Pezeshkian to India, coming in the middle of Iran’s ongoing conflict with the US and Israel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counter Xi Jinping are also expected to participate in the summit. For India, with the UAE also a Brics member-state, the challenge would be to forge a consensus on the West Asia conflict that would allow the summit to end with a joint statement. India holds the presidency of Brics this year. The foreign minister-lever meeting it held earlier this year ended without a joint statement because of differences between Iran and the UAE.

In a difficult balancing act, India has continued to maintain high-level engagement with Iran while repeatedly expressing solidarity with GCC States that came under attack from Tehran for hosting US bases.

-Times of India