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What are the challenges and limitations in India-Iran relations?

  • UPSC 2023
  • 15 marks
  • Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy

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India and Iran share a civilisational inheritance and one interest nothing else can replace: Iran is India's only route to Afghanistan and Central Asia that avoids Pakistan. Yet the partnership of the Tehran (2001) and New Delhi (2003) Declarations has under-delivered. Harsh V. Pant asked in 2004 whether the two were forming a strategic "axis"…

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  • External challenges: a relationship shaped by third parties
  • Limitations within the relationship
  • Assessment
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