India, March 7 -- India's external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said that India "did the right thing" by allowing an Iranian warship, IRIS Lavan, to dock at the Kochi port amid the US and Israel's war with Tehran and the sinking of another Iranian navy vessel, IRIS Dena, off the Sri Lankan port city of Galle.

The IRIS Lavan docked at the Kochi port in the Indian state of Kerala on March 4, the same day that a US submarine torpedoed IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean, killing at least 87 of its crew members. The Sri Lankan Navy rescued the survivors and brought the bodies to its shores, while the Indian forces said they also responded but by then the Lankans had already taken the required action.

As for two other Iranian ships in the are...