India, April 18 -- As sanctions and regional instability redraw global equations, India-Iran relations - anchored in connectivity, energy, and strategic autonomy - have evolved into a pragmatic alignment where calculated statecraft takes precedence over sentiment

India and Iran share a relationship that stretches across centuries-two of the world's oldest and most majestic civilisations, bound not merely by trade routes but by cultural memory and strategic necessity. For years, this partnership carried a quiet resilience. It was only after 2019 that visible shifts began to emerge. India recalibrated its global engagements under mounting geopolitical pressures, but it would be naive to assume that Iran has not forgotten the depth of past ...