{"id":18901,"date":"2026-03-14T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/18901\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:24:06","slug":"iran-war-fallout-puts-9-million-indian-workers-in-the-line-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/18901\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war fallout puts 9 million Indian workers in the line of fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the alert arrives on his phone, Yashwant Deshmukh knows exactly what to do.<\/p>\n

The Dubai-based political analyst moves away from the windows, waits for the second message confirming the missile has been intercepted, and then goes back to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has become a drill,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For the roughly 9 million Indians living and working across the Gulf, the war on Iran<\/a> has shattered one of the region\u2019s most durable illusions: that cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Manama would remain apart from the conflicts flickering at the region\u2019s edges.\"AA policeman inspects the wreckage of a drone in downtown Dubai on Thursday. Photo: AFP\u201cThis is not just another Gulf war, akin to those in 1991 or 2003,\u201d said Uday Chandra, a professor at Ashoka University in India<\/a>\u2019s Haryana state who was recently based in Qatar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the collapse of the long-standing assumption that the GCC states would remain insulated from crises in the Persian Gulf.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the alert arrives on his phone, Yashwant Deshmukh knows exactly what to do. The Dubai-based political analyst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2329,9584,270,1965,1567,45,359,9586,138,34,9585,9587,39,271,272],"class_list":{"0":"post-18901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-abu-dhabi","9":"tag-ashoka-university","10":"tag-bahrain","11":"tag-doha","12":"tag-dubai","13":"tag-gcc","14":"tag-gulf","15":"tag-haryana","16":"tag-india","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-kerala","19":"tag-muharraq","20":"tag-persian-gulf","21":"tag-qatar","22":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116226573094171425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901","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=18901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}