India issued a fresh advisory for its citizens in Iran and strongly advised them to “expeditiously exit” the conflict-ridden country. The Indian embassy posted a message on X, asking its nationals to leave the country using the routes they have suggested. The embassy gave its emergency contact numbers — +989128109115; +989128109109; +989128109102; +989932179359, and email ID – cons.tehran@mea.gov.in and reiterated that there should be no attempt to approach any international land border without prior consultation with the Indian embassy. The advisory came hours after the US and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire. In an earlier advisory, the embassy advised its nationals to stay wherever they are in Iran for the next 2 days, avoiding all electric and military installations and upper floors of multi-storey buildings, remaining indoors, and coordinating any highway movement strictly with the Embassy.
Hours before the advisory came, the US President Donald Trump in a statement in X said that, “a whole civilization will end tonight if Iran does not meet his 8 pm Eastern Time deadline (5:30 am Indian time, Wednesday) to end its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.” Around 1800 Indian nationals have returned to India as of now and as per official data, around 9,000 Indians were in Iran before the war began on February 28. Earlier, Iran proposed a 10-point proposal that it says could form the basis of a longer-term settlement. Among the more contentious demands are Washington’s acceptance of Iran’s uranium enrichment programme and the lifting of both primary and secondary sanctions.
In response to the two-week ceasefire, Iran has accepted the truce and agreed to the conditional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. To build on this progress, Washington and Tehran are scheduled to hold further talks in Islamabad this Friday, April 10.
