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India's Modi Presses Iran on Navigation Freedom as Hormuz Crisis Deepens

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India's Modi Presses Iran on Navigation Freedom as Hormuz Crisis Deepens

🕊️ NEW DELHI — Modi calls Tehran for navigation rights while buying its oil. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: India is a top-three Gulf crude importer — Hormuz at seven transits hits New Delhi hard. Modi's "freedom of navigation" echoes US framing without assigning blame, preserving non-aligned leverage. Tehran needs Indian buyers to sustain revenue under sanctions. The call is quiet coercion: neutral partners have a price, and Modi just named it.

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