New Delhi, March 20 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday said that India issuing a timely condolence on the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would have been the "most appropriate thing to do" even if the US-Israeli action was not condemned.

He also said that the government must act with restraint during times of such raging conflict, asserting that he would have advised the same to a Congress government.

Responding to whether India should have issued condolences on the killing of Iran's Khamenei, Tharoor told ANI, "I agree with the critics. The very first day of the conflict, when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei was killed, we should have expressed our condolences. That would have been the most appropri...