New Delhi, March 21 -- Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian held a phone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier in the day and told PM Modi that there must be an "immediate cessation" of what he called US-Israeli "aggression" to bring an end to the conflict, Iran's embassy in India said in an X post on Saturday. He urged the BRICS grouping of major emerging economies to take an independent role in helping stop the attacks on Tehran.

"He underscored that a prerequisite for ending the war and conflict in the region is the immediate cessation of aggressions by the U.S. and Israel, along with guarantees against their recurrence in the future," the embassy said.

In an earlier X post on Saturday, PM Modi stated that he condemned a...