Iran\u2019s top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, is expected to rally support for Tehran\u2019s war against the US during the Brics foreign ministers\u2019 meeting in New Delhi on Thursday, amid a fragile ceasefire with its adversary.<\/p>\n
India, which holds the Brics chair this year, is hosting the gathering from the expanded bloc that now includes Iran and the United Arab Emirates \u2013 countries at odds over the conflict launched by the United States and Israel on February 28.<\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is also attending the two-day meeting, where discussions around Gulf shipping routes and the effectively blockaded Strait of Hormuz are high on the agenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect Araghchi will use the Brics platform for three purposes: to seek diplomatic support to counter US military pressure, to press for a stronger collective anti-American statement on the war and to reassure India and other Brics members that Iran remains open to diplomacy,\u201d said Uday Chandra, a political-science professor at Ashoka University in India\u2019s Haryana state.<\/p>\n
But Brics, which has long sought to present itself as a voice for the Global South, could not agree on a common position on the war at a meeting of its officials last month in Delhi.<\/p>\n
Chandra said India was likely to steer the diplomatic conversation towards de-escalation, maritime security and practical guarantees for Indian ships. \u201cAnti-American theatrics are unlikely, therefore, to dominate the summit in India,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, is expected to rally support for Tehran\u2019s war against the US during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[211,799,9584,378,26158,262,39160,15155,359,138,34,37,3636,55,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-112979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-abbas-araghchi","9":"tag-afghanistan","10":"tag-ashoka-university","11":"tag-brics","12":"tag-chabahar","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-delhi","15":"tag-global-south","16":"tag-gulf","17":"tag-india","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-narendra-modi","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116571364548510012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}