India advises citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Iran

The Indian Embassy in Iran issued a travel advisory on Wednesday urging Indian nationals to avoid nonessential travel to IranThe advisory comes amid rising security concerns in the region over the past several weekspictwittercomboZI4hAVinmdash India in Iran India_in_Iran July 15 2025In view of the securityrelated developments over the past several weeks Indian nationals are advised to carefully consider the evolving situation before undertaking nonessential travel to Iran the Indian Embassy said on XFurther embassy also advised to continue to monitor the latest regional developments and follow updated advisories issued by the Indian authoritiesFor Indian nationals currently in Iran who wish to return the embassy has noted that options are available Indian nationals already in Iran and interested in leaving may avail the commercial flight and ferry options which are available right now it saidThe advisory follows a sharp spike in regional hostilities that began with Israels launch of Operation Rising Lion on June 13 bombing Iranian military and nuclear facilitiesIn response Iran retaliated with missile and drone attacks against Israeli targets The United States in support strong for Israel retaliated with attacks on key Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow Natanz and Isfahan on June 22 reported ANIThe Iranian Armed Forces launched retaliatory strikes targeting key positions across the Israelioccupied territories and on the US military airbase in QatarThe 12day war came to an end on June 24 when Israel declared a unilateral halt to its aggression announced on its behalf by US President Donald TrumpWashington maintains that Irans uranium enrichment programme could lead to developing nuclear bombs while Tehran has consistently denied the claim insisting that its nuclear programme is meant for civilian purposes reported ANIIn July 2015 the Iran nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action JCPOA was signed between Iran and several world powers including the United States The agreement capped Tehrans enrichment level at 367 per cent and reduced its uranium stockpile to 300 kilograms reported ANIThe deal collapsed in 2018 with Trumps unilateral withdrawal of the US from the accord Since then Iran has started exceeding agreedupon limits to its stockpile of lowenriched uranium in 2019 and began enriching uranium to higher concentrations up to 60 per cent purity which is very close to the weaponsgrade level reported ANIEarlier this month Iranian President Pezeshkian signed into law a bill suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA The state broadcaster of Iran reported that Pezeshkian ratified the bill after Parliament approved the legislation reported ANIWith inputs from ANI