BRAND-NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has actually condemned remarks made by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the therapy of Muslims in the South Asian country, calling his statements “misinformed and unacceptable”.
“We cannot consider ourselves to be Muslims if we are oblivious to the suffering that a Muslim is enduring in Myanmar, Gaza, India, or any other place,” Khamenei claimed in a social networks article on Monday.
In action, India’s international ministry claimed it “strongly deplored” the remarks.
“Countries commenting on minorities are advised to look at their own record before making any observations about others,” the international ministry representative claimed.
The 2 nations have actually usually shared a solid connection, and authorized a 10-year agreement in May to create and run the Iranian port of Chabahar.
India has actually been establishing the port in Chabahar on Iran’s south-eastern coastline along the Gulf of Oman as a means to deliver items to Iran, Afghanistan and main Asian nations, bypassing the ports of Karachi and Gwadar in its opponent Pakistan.
Khamenei, nevertheless, has actually been important of India in the past over problems entailing Indian Muslims and the struggling Muslim- bulk area of Kashmir.
(Reporting by Tanvi Mehta; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)
