Stay indoors for next 48 hours, avoid military sites: Indian embassy to its nationals in Iran
Stay indoors for next 48 hours, avoid military sites: Indian embassy to its nationals in IranTwitter

With US President Donald Trump warning Iran that "a whole civilization will die" if it does not agree to a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the Indian embassy in Tehran on Tuesday asked Indian nationals to stay indoors for the next 48 hours.

In the advisory, the embassy said, "Indian nationals who are still in Iran must stay where they are for the next 48 hours, avoiding all electric and military installations, and upper floors of multi-storey buildings, remaining indoors, and coordinating any highway movement strictly with the embassy."

"Those in embassy-hired hotels should stay put indoors while maintaining regular contact with on-site embassy teams," the embassy said, adding that "all are requested to monitor official updates closely". It also put out some emergency phone numbers.

There are about 8,000 Indians in Iran, and the embassy in Tehran has facilitated the movement of 1,862 Indian nationals from Iran to Armenia and Azerbaijan for onward travel to India, including 935 Indian students and 472 Indian fishermen.

Since February 28, when the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran, around 7.6 lakh passengers have travelled from the region to India.

According to Indian officials, all Indian seafarers in the region are safe and no incident involving Indian-flagged vessels has been reported in the past 24 hours.

Currently, 16 Indian-flagged vessels with 433 Indian seafarers remain in the western Persian Gulf region. Indian authorities have facilitated the safe repatriation of over 1,691 Indian seafarers so far, including 92 in the last 24 hours from airports and various regional locations across the Gulf, officials said.

The Indian government has been in touch with all stakeholders in the region, as External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has spoken to Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi six times, and multiple times with foreign ministers of Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman, among others.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also been in touch with leaders of Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, and others. He has spoken at least twice with each of them since the start of the war.

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