Officials associated with the Indian government will be permitted to meet the 17 crew members from India currently on an Israel-linked cargo vessel that Iran seized, the foreign ministry of Iran declared on Monday.
The assurance was reached after S Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister, dialled his Iranian counterpart Amir Abdollahian, expressing his concerns about the crew’s conditions.
In a statement, the Iranian foreign ministry mentioned that Jaishankar requested aid...