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🇮🇳🤝🇮🇷 ARHAM IAS – UPSC International Relations Series

In this comprehensive lecture, we analyse India–Iran relations from 1947 to 2025 through a strategic, policy-oriented lens suitable for UPSC Prelims, Mains, and Interview preparation.

This session covers:

✔ Civilisational foundations of India–Iran ties
✔ Treaty of Friendship (1950) – Purpose & significance
✔ Cold War divergence & CENTO context
✔ 1960s trade agreements & energy diplomacy
✔ 1975 Kudremukh Iron Ore Agreement
✔ Islamic Revolution (1979) & diplomatic recalibration
✔ Taliban factor & Afghanistan convergence
✔ Tehran Declaration (2001) & New Delhi Declaration (2003)
✔ Chabahar Port Agreement (2016) – Strategic importance
✔ International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC)
✔ Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
✔ US Sanctions & Oil Import decline
✔ India’s Strategic Autonomy in West Asia

This video explains how India balances relations between:

United States

Israel

Iran

without compromising national interests.

📌 Why this topic is important for UPSC?

GS Paper 2 – International Relations

GS Paper 3 – Energy Security

Essay – Strategic Autonomy & Multi-Alignment

Interview – India’s West Asia policy

📊 Key Themes Covered:

Energy Security

Connectivity Geopolitics

Chabahar Port & Central Asia Access

Sanctions Diplomacy

Multi-Alignment Strategy

India’s West Asia Balancing

This is not just a historical overview — this is a structured analytical framework for answer writing.
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