India, April 12 -- The Narendra Modi government was represented by the minister of state for external affairs, Pabitra Margherita, on the last day of Chehelum (40-day mourning) for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

According to MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, Margherita offered solemn respects on behalf of the Government of India at the 40th-day mourning ceremony organised by the Embassy of Iran in New Delhi.

"India-Iran relations are anchored in deep-rooted civilizational, cultural and people-to-people ties," Jaiswal said in a post on X.

Khamenei was killed in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on February 28, an incident that plunged the West Asian region into a war that lasted six weeks before a ceasefire was announced ...