Union external affairs minister S Jaishankar spoke to Iranian foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi . The two leaders discussed the entire situation that prevailed during the 12-day Iran-Israel conflict.
The foreign minister shared the information on X. He posted, “Spoke to FM @araghchi of Iran this afternoon. Appreciate his sharing Iran’s perspective and thinking in the current complex situation.
Thanked him for facilitating the safe evacuation of Indian nationals.”
India evacuated 3,426 Indian nationals from Iran
On Thursday, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that India, so far have evacuated 3,426 Indian nationals from Iran and 818 Indian nationals from Israel in Operation Sindhu.
Addressing a weekly briefing, Jaiswal said, “We launched Operation Sindhu on the 18th of June. We have around 10,000 people from the Indian community in Iran, around 40,000 people in Israel who are Indian nationals.”
“From Iran, we have so far evacuated 3,426 Indian nationals, 11 OCI cardholders, 9 Nepalese nationals and some Sri Lankan nationals as well. I’ll give you the exact figure. Plus one Iranian national who happens to be the spouse of an Indian national. In all, we mounted 14 flights to bring back Indian nationals from Iran. These flights, they flew from Mashhad, as well as from Yerevan in Armenia, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan,” he added.
Further, Jaiswal confirmed that, “one more flight is to come from or is on its way from Armenia and it will land later this evening. With that, we would have completed all the people who wish to be evacuated from Iran and they would be back home.”
